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ἱμονιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱμονιά

Structure: ἱμονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i(ma/s

Sense

  1. the rope of a draw-well

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱμονιά ἱμονιᾱ́ ἱμονιαί
Genitive ἱμονιᾶς ἱμονιαῖν ἱμονιῶν
Dative ἱμονιᾷ ἱμονιαῖν ἱμονιαῖς
Accusative ἱμονιᾱ́ν ἱμονιᾱ́ ἱμονιᾱ́ς
Vocative ἱμονιᾱ́ ἱμονιᾱ́ ἱμονιαί

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

  • ἔπειτα δὲ κἀκεῖνο πῶσ οὐκ ἄγνωμον αὐτῶν καὶ παντελῶσ τετυφωμένον τὸ περὶ τῶν οὕτωσ ἀδήλων λέγοντασ μηδὲν ὡσ εἰκάζοντασ ἀποφαίνεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ὑπερδιατείνεσθαί τε καὶ μηδεμίαν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὑπερβολὴν ἀπολιμπάνειν, μονονουχὶ διομνυμένουσ μύδρον μὲν εἶναι τὸν ἥλιον, κατοικεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν σελήνην, ὑδατοποτεῖν δὲ τοὺσ ἀστέρασ τοῦ ἡλίου καθάπερ ἱμονιᾷ τινι τὴν ἰκμάδα ἐκ τῆσ θαλάττησ ἀνασπῶντοσ καὶ ἅπασιν αὐτοῖσ τὸ ποτὸν ἑξῆσ διανέμοντοσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. the rope of a draw-well

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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