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φρύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρύνη

Structure: φρυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a toad

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φρύνη φρύνᾱ φρύναι
Genitive φρύνης φρύναιν φρυνῶν
Dative φρύνῃ φρύναιν φρύναις
Accusative φρύνην φρύνᾱ φρύνᾱς
Vocative φρύνη φρύνᾱ φρύναι

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

  • ὦ τρισκακοδαίμων εἰ γυναῖκα δεῖ σαπρὰν βινεῖν ὅλην τὴν νύκτα καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν, κἄπειτ’ ἐπειδὰν τῆσδ’ ἀπαλλαγῶ, πάλιν φρύνην ἔχουσαν λήκυθον πρὸσ ταῖσ γνάθοισ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 4:26)
  • "καὶ ὅπωσ ἐνταῦθα μὴ Φρύνην ὀνομάζωμεν, ὦ ἑταῖρε, ἢ Λαΐσ τισ ἢ Γναθαίνιον ἐφέσπερον δαίουσα λαμπτῆροσ σέλασ ἐκδεχομένη καὶ καλοῦσα παροδεύεται πολλάκισ ἐλθὼν δ’ ἐξαπίνησ ἄνεμοσ σὺν ἔρωτι πολλῷ καὶ πόθῳ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο · (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:25)
  • "Μνησαρέτη γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο, τὴν δὲ Φρύνην ἐπίκλησιν ἔσχε διὰ τὴν ὠχρότητα. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 14 3:3)
  • Φρύνην ἐπείρα Μοίριχοσ τὴν Θεσπικήν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 45 6:5)
  • ὅπου γε καὶ Φρύνην τὴν Θεσπιακὴν ἔστιν ἰδεῖν, ἐπὶ κίονοσ κἀκείνην ὡσ Γοργίαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 52:5)

Synonyms

  1. a toad

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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