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ἠριγένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠριγένεια ἠριγενείᾱς

Structure: ἠριγενει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. early-born (Homeric epithet of Eos, the Dawn)
  2. (as a substantive, see Ἠρῐγένειᾰ) a child of the morning
  3. the morning, morn
  4. (in later Epic) a day
  5. (echoing ἔᾰρ, “spring”, etymon of ἦρι, pseudo-adjective) one bearing in spring (a varia lectio of ἠυγένειᾰ)

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἠριγένεια ἠριγενείᾱ ἠριγένειαι
Genitive ἠριγενείᾱς ἠριγενείαιν ἠριγενειῶν
Dative ἠριγενείᾱͅ ἠριγενείαιν ἠριγενείαις
Accusative ἠριγένειαν ἠριγενείᾱ ἠριγενείᾱς
Vocative ἠριγένεια ἠριγενείᾱ ἠριγένειαι

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

  • πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι μοῦνοσ ἀέθλια Κωνσταντῖνοσ εἰσ μίαν ἠριγένειαν ἑλὼν, ἤμειψε μὲν ἵππουσ ἀντιπάλοισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3741)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἑορτάζοντι γενέθλιον ἠριγένειαν δῶρον ὁ Νειλαιεὺσ πέμπει ἀοιδοπόλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3532)
  • ὄρθροσ ἔβη, Χρύσιλλα, πάλαι δ’ ἠῷοσ ἀλέκτωρ κηρύσσων φθονερὴν Ἠριγένειαν ἄγει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 31)
  • ὁππότε δή ῥ’ Ὀδυσῆα ἐέλπετο ὃν κατὰ θυμὸν εὐνῆσ ἧσ ἀλόχου ταρπήμεναι ἠδὲ καὶ ὕπνου, αὐτίκ’ ἀπ’ Ὠκεανοῦ χρυσόθρονον ἠριγένειαν ὦρσεν, ἵν’ ἀνθρώποισι φόωσ φέροι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 23 38:2)

Synonyms

  1. early-born

  2. a child of the morning

  3. a day

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