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λοχεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοχεία

Structure: λοχει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: loxeu/w

Sense

  1. childbirth, childbed

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λοχεία λοχείᾱ λοχεῖαι
Genitive λοχείᾱς λοχείαιν λοχειῶν
Dative λοχείᾱͅ λοχείαιν λοχείαις
Accusative λοχείᾱν λοχείᾱ λοχείᾱς
Vocative λοχείᾱ λοχείᾱ λοχεῖαι

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

  • εἶτα Λητοῦσ ἐγίγνετο λοχεία καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ γοναὶ καὶ Κορωνίδοσ γάμοσ καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸσ ἐτίκτετο. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 38:7)
  • ἐνταῦθα γὰρ μυθεύουσι τὴν λοχείαν καὶ τὴν τροφὸν τὴν Ὀρτυγίαν καὶ τὸ ἄδυτον ἐν ᾧ ἡ λοχεία, καὶ τὴν πλησίον ἐλαίαν, ᾗ πρῶτον ἐπαναπαύσασθαί φασι τὴν θεὸν ἀπολυθεῖσαν τῶν ὠδίνων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 34:13)
  • πεμφθεῖσα γὰρ ὡσ ἔρια ὠνήσαιτό μοι ἐπὶ τὴν γαστέρα καὶ εὔξαιτο τῇ Λοχείᾳ ὡσ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, Λεσβίαν ἔφη ἐντυχοῦσαν αὐτῇ . (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • φέρε <δ’ αὐτά> νιν ἀπὸ δειράδοσ εἰναλίασ, λοχεῖα κλεινὰ λιποῦσα μά‐ τηρ, τὰν ἀστάκτων ὑδάτων βακχεύουσαν Διονύ‐ σῳ Παρνάσιον κορυφάν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. childbirth

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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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