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ἱέρεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱέρεια

Structure: ἱερει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of i(ereu/s

Sense

  1. a priestess

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱέρεια ἱερείᾱ ἱέρειαι
Genitive ἱερείᾱς ἱερείαιν ἱερειῶν
Dative ἱερείᾱͅ ἱερείαιν ἱερείαις
Accusative ἱερείᾱν ἱερείᾱ ἱερείᾱς
Vocative ἱερείᾱ ἱερείᾱ ἱέρειαι

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

  • θύειν δ’ ὅταν ἐπὶ νοῦν ἰῄ τινί, πρὸσ τὰ δημόσια ἴτω θύσων, καὶ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσί τε καὶ ἱερείαισ ἐγχειριζέτω τὰ θύματα, οἷσ ἁγνεῖαι τούτων ἐπιμελεῖσ. (Plato, Laws, book 10 152:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ παμπληθῆ χρήματα τοῖσ περὶ τὸ μαντεῖον διατρίβουσιν ὑπισχνούμενοσ οὐκ ἔπειθε, ταῖσ ἐν Δωδώνῃ περὶ τὸ μαντεῖον οὔσαισ ἱερείαισ προσήνεγκε λόγουσ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν διά τινοσ Φερεκράτουσ, Ἀπολλωνιάτου μὲν τὸ γένοσ, ἔχοντοσ δὲ συνήθειαν πρὸσ τοὺσ περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν διατρίβοντασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 13 5:1)
  • τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα οὐδενὶ πλὴν εἰ μὴ ἄρα ταῖσ ἱερείαισ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. a priestess

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

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