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ἱεροφαντία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱεροφαντία

Structure: ἱεροφαντι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from i(erofa/nths

Sense

  1. the office of hierophant

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱεροφαντία ἱεροφαντίᾱ ἱεροφαντίαι
Genitive ἱεροφαντίᾱς ἱεροφαντίαιν ἱεροφαντιῶν
Dative ἱεροφαντίᾱͅ ἱεροφαντίαιν ἱεροφαντίαις
Accusative ἱεροφαντίᾱν ἱεροφαντίᾱ ἱεροφαντίᾱς
Vocative ἱεροφαντίᾱ ἱεροφαντίᾱ ἱεροφαντίαι

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

  • ὡσ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἔγνω καὶ προεῖπεν Εὐμολπίδαισ καὶ Κήρυξι, σκοποὺσ μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν ἄκρων ἐκάθισε καὶ προδρόμουσ τινὰσ ἅμ’ ἡμέρᾳ προεξέπεμψεν, ἱερεῖσ δὲ καὶ μύστασ καὶ μυσταγωγοὺσ ἀναλαβὼν καὶ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ περικαλύψασ ἦγεν ἐν κόσμῳ καὶ μετὰ σιωπῆσ, θέαμα σεμνὸν καὶ θεοπρεπὲσ τὴν στρατηγίαν ἐκείνην ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ, ὑπὸ τῶν μὴ φθονούντων ἱεροφαντίαν καὶ μυσταγωγίαν προσαγορευομένην. (Plutarch, , chapter 34 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. the office of hierophant

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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