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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

  • ἢ ὅτι πέντε δεῖσθαι θεῶν τοὺσ γαμοῦντασ οἰόνται, Διὸσ τελείου καὶ Ἥρασ τελείασ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Πειθοῦσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ταῖσ ὠδῖσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἐπικαλοῦνται; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 2:2)
  • καὶ Λουκῖναν Ἥραν καλοῦσιν οἱο͂ν φωτεινὴν ἢ φωτίζουσαν καὶ νομίζουσιν ἐν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ὠδῖσι βοηθεῖν, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν σελήνην, διὰ κυάνεον πόλον ἄστρων διὰ τ’ ὠκυτόκοιο σελάνασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 77 1:5)
  • καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Πειθοῦσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ταῖσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 5:2)
  • ἤδη καλλιπέτηλον ἐπ’ εὐκάρποισι λοχείαισ λήιον ἐκ ῥοδέων ἀνθοφορεῖ καλύκων ἤδη ἐπ’ ἀκρεμόνεσσιν ἰσοζυγέων κυπαρίσσων μουσομανὴσ τέττιξ θέλγει ἀμαλλοδέτην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 161)

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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