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κατάρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάρα

Structure: καταρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a curse

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

  • ἐρήμην δ’ αὐτοῦ καταγνόντεσ καὶ τὰ χρήματα δημεύσαντεσ ἔτι καταρᾶσθαι προσεψηφίσαντο πάντασ ἱερεῖσ καὶ ἱερείασ, ὧν μόνην φασὶ Θεανὼ τὴν Μένωνοσ Ἀγραυλῆθεν ἀντειπεῖν πρὸσ τὸ ψήφισμα, φάσκουσαν εὐχῶν, οὐ καταρῶν ἱέρειαν γεγονέναι. (Plutarch, , chapter 22 4:1)
  • διὸ καὶ νῦν, ἐπειδὰν θύωσιν Ἡρακλεῖ, μετὰ καταρῶν τοῦτο πράττουσι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 11:26)
  • τοῦ δέ οἱ βίου τὴν τελευτὴν συμβῆναι λέγουσιν ἐκ καταρῶν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 2:3)
  • ἐσ δὲ τοῦ Μελεάγρου τὴν τελευτὴν Ὁμήρῳ μέν ἐστιν εἰρημένα ὡσ Ἐρινὺσ καταρῶν ἀκούσαι τῶν Ἀλθαίασ καὶ ἀποθάνοι κατὰ ταύτην ὁ Μελέαγροσ τὴν αἰτίαν, αἱ δὲ Ηοἶαί τε καλούμεναι καὶ ἡ Μινυὰσ ὡμολογήκασιν ἀλλήλαισ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. a curse

Related

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

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