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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

  • σὺ μὲν γὰρ εὐδαίμων, βασιλεὺσ γάρ, καὶ δύνασαι ἀνασπᾶν τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἱμονιὰν καθείσ· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 8:3)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν ἱμονιάν τιν’ ἀποπατεῖσ, ἐμοὶ δ’ ὡρ́α βαδίζειν ἐστὶν εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν, ἤνπερ λάβω θοἰμάτιον, ὅπερ ἦν μοι μόνον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode35)
  • οὐκ ἔχων δὲ τυγχάνω οὐκ ὄξοσ, οὐκ ἄνηθον, οὐκ ὀρίγανον, οὐ θρῖον, οὐκ ἔλαιον, οὐκ ἀμυγδάλασ, οὐ σκόροδον, οὐ σίραιον, οὐχὶ γήθυον, οὐ βολβόν, οὐ πῦρ, οὐ κύμινον, οὐχ ἅλασ, οὐκ ᾠόν, οὐ ξύλ’, οὐ σκάφην, οὐ τήγανον, οὐχ ἱμονιάν, οὐ λάκκον εἶδον, οὐ φρέαρ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 69 2:5)

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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