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γραῦς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραῦς γρᾱός

Structure: γραυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from same Root as ge/rwn

Sense

  1. an old woman

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλὰ θώμεσθ’ ὦ φίλαι γρᾶεσ ταδί πρῶτον χαμαί. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, antistrophe 12)
  • "εἶ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα οὐκ ἐμέλησέ σοι ἐκμαθεῖν ὅντινα τρόπον ὁμιλεῖ τοῖσ νοσήμασι προσφερόμενα, κἀμοὶ δοκεῖσ οὐδὲ τὰ προφανέστατα ἂν παραδέξασθαι ταῦτα, τῶν ἐκ περιόδου πυρετῶν τὰσ ἀποπομπὰσ καὶ τῶν ἑρπετῶν τὰσ καταθέλξεισ καὶ βουβώνων ἰάσεισ καὶ τἄλλα ὁπόσα καὶ αἱ γρᾶεσ ἤδη ποιοῦσιν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 9:1)
  • περὶ δὲ τὸν πανάθλιον εὕδουσι γρᾶεσ, Νάννιον, Πλαγγών, Λύκα, Γνάθαινα, Φρύνη, Πυθιονίκη, Μυρρίνη, Χρυσίσ, Κοναλίσ, Ιἑρόκλεια, Λοπάδιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 22 1:4)
  • ἄλλαι δ’ ὑποπρεσβύτεραι γρᾶεσ Θασίου μέλανοσ μεστὸν κεραμευομέναισ κοτύλαισ μεγάλαισ ἔγχεον ἐσ σφέτερον δέμασ οὐδένα κόσμον,4 ἔρωτι βιαζόμεναι μέλανοσ οἴνου ἀκράτου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 573)
  • τέσσαρεσ δὲ ἔνδον ὑπολειπόμεναι γρᾶεσ, αὗται τὴν βοῦν εἰσιν αἱ κατεργαζόμεναι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. an old woman

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