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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

  • ὁπόταν ἡ τῶν εἰσιόντων σύστασισ ἐν ὑγροῖσ, οἰκεία τῇ τῆσ γλώττησ ἕξει πεφυκυῖα, λεαίνῃ μὲν ἐπαλείφουσα τὰ τραχυνθέντα, τὰ δὲ παρὰ φύσιν συνεστῶτα ἢ κεχυμένα τὰ μὲν συνάγῃ, τὰ δὲ χαλᾷ, καὶ πάνθ’ ὅτι μάλιστα ἱδρύῃ κατὰ φύσιν, ἡδὺ καὶ προσφιλὲσ παντὶ πᾶν τὸ τοιοῦτον ἰάμα τῶν βιαίων παθημάτων γιγνόμενον κέκληται γλυκύ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 315:1)

Related

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

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