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κασιγνήτη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κασιγνήτη

Structure: κασιγνητ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of kasi/gnhtos

Sense

  1. a sister

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

  • τὸν δὲ μεθ’ ὡμάρτησε κασιγνήτη Διὸσ Ἥρη. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 111)
  • οὐδὲ κασιγνήτη Λητωιὰσ Ἀπόλλωνοσ Ἄρτεμισ ἠτίμησε καὶ ἀγροτέρη περ ἐοῦσα. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 115)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀκηχεμένῃσιν ἐπουρανίῃσι δικάζων Κύπριδοσ ἀγλαϊήν καὶ ἐπήρατον ᾔνεσα μορφήν, ἡ δὲ περικλήιστον, ἐμῶν ἀντάξιον ἔργων, νύμφην ἱμερόεσσαν ἐμοὶ κατένευσεν ὀπάσσαι, ἣν Ἑλένην ἐνέπουσι, κασιγνήτην Ἀφροδίτησ, ἧσ ἕνεκεν τέτληκα καὶ οἴδματα τόσσα περῆσαι. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1141)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐκ δόμων ἡρ́παστο Μενέλεωσ λάθρᾳ, κτανεῖν μ’ Ὀρέστην χρῆν, κασιγνήτησ πόσιν Μενέλαον ὡσ σώσαιμι; (Euripides, episode, anapests 3:4)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχουσ’, ἀδελφόν τ’ οὐκ ἀνειλόμην χεροῖν, ‐ ὃσ νῦν ὄλωλεν ‐ οὐ κασιγνήτῃ στόμα συνῆψ’ ὑπ’ αἰδοῦσ, ὡσ ἰοῦσ’ ἐσ Πηλέωσ μέλαθρα· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:10)
  • ἀλλ’ οἴχεται μὲν σὴ κασιγνήτη πάλαι· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:14)
  • καὶ νῦν ἀνακάλυπτ’, ὦ κασιγνήτη, κάρα, ἐκ δακρύων τ’ ἄπελθε, κεἰ μάλ’ ἀθλίωσ ἔχομεν. (Euripides, episode 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. a sister

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

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