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λέαινα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέαινα

Structure: λεαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of le/wn

Sense

  1. a lioness

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

  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ χαλκῆν ποιησάμενοι λέαιναν ἄγλωσσον ἐν πύλαισ τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἀνέθηκαν, τῷ μὲν θυμοειδεῖ τοῦ ζῴου τὸ ἀήττητον αὐτῆσ τῷ δ’ ἀγλώσσῳ τὸ σιωπηρὸν καὶ μυστηριῶδεσ ἐμφαίνοντεσ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 8 1:4)
  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ χαλκῆν ποιησάμενοι, λέαιναν ἄγλωσσον ἐν πύλαισ τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἀνέθηκαν, τῷ μὲν θυμοειδεῖ τοῦ ζῴου τὸ ἀήττητον αὐτῆσ τῷ δ’ ἀγλώσσῳ τὸ σιωπηρὸν καὶ μυστηριῶδεσ ἐμφαίνοντεσ οὐδεὶσ γὰρ οὕτω λόγοσ ὠφέλησε ῥηθεὶσ ὡσ πολλοὶ σιωπηθέντεσ· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 8 4:1)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα καὶ Λέαιναν, εἰ βούλει, κράτει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 394)
  • καίτοι χερσαῖον οὐδὲν ἴσμεν ἑτέρῳ κινδυνεύοντι τολμῶν ἀμύνειν, οὐκ ἄρκτον οὐ σῦν οὐδὲ λέαιναν οὐδὲ πάρδαλιν ἀλλὰ συγχωρεῖ μὲν εἰσ ταὐτὸν ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ τὰ ὁμόφυλα καὶ κύκλῳ μετ’ ἀλλήλων περίεισιν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 25 4:1)
  • καίτοι Περιάνδρου Πεισίστρατοσ καὶ ὁ παῖσ Ἱππίασ φιλάνθρωποι μᾶλλον καὶ σοφώτεροι τά τε πολεμικὰ ἦσαν καὶ ὅσα ἧκεν ἐσ κόσμον τῶν πολιτῶν, ἐσ ὃ διὰ τὸν Ἱππάρχου θάνατον Ἱππίασ ἄλλα τε ἐχρήσατο θυμῷ καὶ ἐσ γυναῖκα ὄνομα Λέαιναν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 1:3)

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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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