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φόβη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φόβη

Structure: φοβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lock or curl of hair
  2. the mane
  3. the tresses, foliage

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φόβη φόβᾱ φόβαι
Genitive φόβης φόβαιν φοβῶν
Dative φόβῃ φόβαιν φόβαις
Accusative φόβην φόβᾱ φόβᾱς
Vocative φόβη φόβᾱ φόβαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ηὗδον δὲ πᾶσαι σώμασιν παρειμέναι, αἳ μὲν πρὸσ ἐλάτησ νῶτ’ ἐρείσασαι φόβην, αἳ δ’ ἐν δρυὸσ φύλλοισι πρὸσ πέδῳ κάρα εἰκῇ βαλοῦσαι σωφρόνωσ, οὐχ ὡσ σὺ φῂσ ᾠνωμένασ κρατῆρι καὶ λωτοῦ ψόφῳ θηρᾶν καθ’ ὕλην Κύπριν ἠρημωμένασ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 3:3)
  • καὶ τότ’ ἐξαίφνησ χθονὸσ τυφὼσ ἀείρασ σκηπτόν οὐράνιον ἄχοσ, πίμπλησι πεδίον, πᾶσαν αἰκίζων φόβην ὕλησ πεδιάδοσ, ἐν δ’ ἐμεστώθη μέγασ αἰθήρ· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a lock or curl of hair

  2. the mane

  3. the tresses

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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