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φονή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φονή

Structure: φον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fe/nw

Sense

  1. slaughter, murder, the act of slaying, murderously, a-killing

Declension

First declension

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

  • ἄπεστι δὲ κυσὶν πεποιθὼσ ἐν φοναῖσ θηροκτόνοισ· (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:43)
  • κτείνω δ’ οἳ κήπουσ εὐώδεισ φθείρουσιν λύμαισ ἐχθίσταισ, ἑρπετά τε καὶ δάκετα <πάνθ’> ὅσαπερ ἔστιν ὑπ’ ἐμᾶσ πτέρυγοσ ἐν φοναῖσ ὄλλυται. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, strophe 13)
  • ἥτισ τὸν αὑτῆσ αὐτάδελφον ἐν φοναῖσ πεπτῶτ’ ἄθαπτον μήθ’ ὑπ’ ὠμηστῶν κυνῶν εἰάσ’ ὀλέσθαι μήθ’ ὑπ’ οἰωνῶν τινοσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:8)
  • καὶ σπῶντασ ἐν χηλαῖσιν ἀλλήλουσ φοναῖσ ἔγνων· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode13)
  • ὡσ αἰτίαν γε τῶνδε κἀκείνων ἔχων πρὸσ τῆσ θανούσησ τῆσδ’ ἐπεσκήπτου μόρων ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατ’ ἐν φοναῖσ τρόπῳ; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 34)

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

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