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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

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

  • "ὥσπερ εὐθὺσ ἡ περὶ τὴν γένεσιν ἡμῶν οὐκ εὐπρεπὴσ οὖσα δι’ αἵματοσ καὶ ὠδίνων, ὅμωσ ἔχει θεῖον ἐπίσκοπον Εἰλείθυιαν καὶ Λοχείαν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 15 1:4)
  • ἡ δ’ ὑγίεια ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ ὥσπερ ἡ γαλήνη ταῖσ ἀλκυόσιν ἀσφαλῆ καὶ καλὴν γένεσιν καὶ λοχείαν ἐνδίδωσι . (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 8 5:1)
  • "ὅθεν οἶμαι καὶ τὴν Ἄρτεμιν λοχείαν καὶ Εἰλείθυιαν, οὐκ οὖσαν ἑτέραν ἢ τὴν σελήνην, ὠνομάσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:19)
  • αἰτίαν δέ γε τούτου φασὶν εἶναι τὴν Ἄρτεμιν, ὅτι ἄλοχοσ οὖσα τὴν λοχείαν εἴληχε. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 46:7)
  • ὅταν γὰρ ἡ γυνὴ τέκῃ, ταύτησ μὲν οὐδεμία γίνεται περὶ τὴν λοχείαν ἐπιμέλεια, ὁ δ’ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆσ ἀναπεσὼν ὡσ νοσῶν λοχεύεται τακτὰσ ἡμέρασ, ὡσ τοῦ σώματοσ αὐτῷ κακοπαθοῦντοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 14 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. childbirth

Related

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

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