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γυναικωνῖτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυναικωνῖτις

Structure: γυναικωνῑτιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the women's apartments, the women of the harem

Examples

  • εἶτα διὰ τοῦτον ταῖσ γυναικωνίτισιν σφραγῖδασ ἐπιβάλλουσιν ἤδη καὶ μοχλοὺσ τηροῦντεσ ἡμᾶσ, καὶ προσέτι Μολοττικοὺσ τρέφουσι μορμολυκεῖα τοῖσ μοιχοῖσ κύνασ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene26)

Synonyms

  1. the women's apartments

Related

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

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