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λαῖνα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαῖνα

Structure: λαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λαῖνα λαίνᾱ λαῖναι
Genitive λαίνης λαίναιν λαινῶν
Dative λαίνῃ λαίναιν λαίναις
Accusative λαῖναν λαίνᾱ λαίνᾱς
Vocative λαῖνα λαίνᾱ λαῖναι

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

  • φόβον τ’ Ἀχαιῶν, χαλκόνωτον ἀσπίδα τήνδ’, ἣν πατὴρ τοῦδ’ ἀμφὶ πλεύρ’ ἐβάλλετο, μή νυν πορεῦσαι Πηλέωσ ἐφ’ ἑστίαν, μηδ’ ἐσ τὸν αὐτὸν θάλαμον, οὗ νυμφεύσεται μήτηρ νεκροῦ τοῦδ’ Ἀνδρομάχη, λύπασ ὁρᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἀντὶ κέδρου περιβόλων τε λαί̈νων ἐν τῇδε θάψαι παῖδα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 1:5)
  • τουτὶ λαβὼν ἄπελθε λαί̈νων σταθμῶν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:42)

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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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