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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

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

  • ^ τελετήν τε γάρ τινα συνίσταται καὶ δᾳδουχίασ καὶ ἱεροφαντίασ, τριῶν ἑξῆσ ἀεὶ τελουμένων ἡμερῶν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 38:2)
  • "Ἀλκιβιάδησ δὲ καὶ Θεόδωροσ τελεστήριον ἐποίησαν τὸ Πολυτίωνοσ συμπόσιον, ἀπομιμούμενοι δᾳδουχίασ καὶ ἱεροφαντίασ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 8:6)

Synonyms

  1. the office of hierophant

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

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