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ἰυγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰυγή

Structure: ἰυγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: i)u/zw

Sense

  1. a howling, shrieking, yelling

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

  • τί δ’ ἔστιν οὕτω νεοχμὸν ἐξαίφνησ, ὅτου τοσήνδ’ ἰυγὴν καὶ στόνον σαυτοῦ ποεῖ; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode26)
  • τὴν δ’ ἐπὶ Θερμώδοντι καὶ Ἀσωπῷ λεχεποίῃ Ἑλλήνων σύνοδον καὶ βαρβαρόφωνον ἰυγήν, τῇ πολλοὶ πεσέονται ὑπὲρ λάχεσίν τε μόρον τε τοξοφόρων Μήδων, ὅταν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἐπέλθῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 991)
  • ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν Βάκιδι ἐσ ταύτην τὴν μάχην ἐστὶ πεποιημένα, τὴν δ’ ἐπὶ Θερμώδοντι καὶ Ἀσωπῷ λεχεποίῃ Ἑλλήνων σύνοδον καὶ βαρβαρόφωνον ἰυγήν, τῇ πολλοὶ πεσέονται ὑπὲρ λάχεσίν τε μόρον τε τοξοφόρων Μήδων, ὅταν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἐπέλθῃ, ταῦτα μὲν καὶ παραπλήσια τούτοισι ἄλλα Μουσαίῳ ἔχοντα οἶδα ἐσ Πέρσασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 43 2:2)

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

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