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γενετή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γενετή

Structure: γενετ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = genea/ II. 3

Sense

  1. the hour of birth

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γενετή γενετᾱ́ γενεταί
Genitive γενετῆς γενεταῖν γενετῶν
Dative γενετῇ γενεταῖν γενεταῖς
Accusative γενετήν γενετᾱ́ γενετᾱ́ς
Vocative γενετή γενετᾱ́ γενεταί

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

  • Κρόνιε, πρύτανι Φρύγιε, γενέτα πάτερ, ἀνάξια τᾶσ Δαρδάνου γονᾶσ τάδ’ οἱᾶ πάσχομεν δέδορκασ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric2)
  • μὴ Τυρὼ τρύχοι σε περισπείρημα Σιδηροῦσ Σαλμωνεῖ γενέτᾳ τῷδ’ ὑποπτησσομένην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 93)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐπόησεν Κλειτόριοσ, γενέτᾳ ταὐτὸ λαχὼν ὄνομα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1535)
  • τὰν στάλαν ἐχάραξε Βιάνωρ οὐκ ἐπὶ ματρί, οὐδ’ ἐπὶ τῷ γενέτᾳ, πότμον ὀφειλόμενον, παρθενικᾷ δ’ ἐπὶ παιδί· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5471)

Synonyms

  1. the hour of birth

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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