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λιμοθνής

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμοθνής λιμοθνῆτος

Structure: λιμοθνητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qnh/skw

Sense

  1. dying of hunger

Declension

Third 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

  • ἰδοὺ δ’ Ἀπόλλων αὐτὸσ ἐκδύων ἐμὲ χρηστηρίαν ἐσθῆτ’, ἐποπτεύσασ δέ με κἀν τοῖσδε κόσμοισ καταγελωμένην μέγα φίλων ὑπ’ ἐχθρῶν οὐ διχορρόπωσ, μάτην ‐ καλουμένη δὲ φοιτὰσ ὡσ ἀγύρτρια πτωχὸσ τάλαινα λιμοθνὴσ ἠνεσχόμην ‐ καὶ νῦν ὁ μάντισ μάντιν ἐκπράξασ ἐμὲ ἀπήγαγ’ ἐσ τοιάσδε θανασίμουσ τύχασ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:24)

Similar forms

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

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