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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

  • ὦ τλῆμον, εἰ τέθνηκασ, ἐξ οἱών καλῶν ἔρρεισ, Ὀρέστα, καὶ πατρὸσ ζηλωμάτων ‐ τὰ τῆσ θεοῦ δὲ μέμφομαι σοφίσματα, ἥτισ βροτῶν μὲν ἤν τισ ἅψηται φόνου, ἢ καὶ λοχείασ ἢ νεκροῦ θίγῃ χεροῖν, βωμῶν ἀπείργει, μυσαρὸν ὡσ ἡγουμένη, αὐτὴ δὲ θυσίαισ ἥδεται βροτοκτόνοισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 8:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τὴν μὲν μέλιτταν ἡμεῖσ σοφὴν καλοῦμεν καὶ νομίζομεν ξανθὸν μέλι μηδομέναν κολακεύοντεσ τὸ ἡδὺ καὶ γαργαλίζον ἡμᾶσ τῆσ γλυκύτητοσ, τὴν δὲ τῶν ἄλλων περὶ τὰσ λοχείασ καὶ τὰσ ἀνατροφὰσ σοφίαν καὶ τέχνην παρορῶμεν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 2 2:2)
  • αἰσχρὸν γάρ, ῶ̓ Ζεῦ, τὰσ θηρίων γενέσεισ καὶ λοχείασ καὶ ὠδῖνασ καὶ τεκνοτροφίασ φύσιν εἶναι καὶ χάριν, τὰσ δ’ ἀνθρώπων δάνεια καὶ μισθοὺσ καὶ ἀρραβῶνασ ἐπὶ χρείαισ διδομένουσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 2 9:1)
  • τὴν δὲ τῶν ἄλλων περὶ τὰσ λοχείασ καὶ τὰσ ἀνατροφὰσ σοφίαν καὶ τέχνην παρορῶμεν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 2 6:1)
  • αἰσχρὸν γάρ, ὦ Ζεῦ, τὰσ θηρίων γενέσεισ καὶ λοχείασ καὶ ὠδῖνασ καὶ τεκνοτροφίασ φύσιν εἶναι καὶ χάριν, τὰσ δ’ ἀνθρώπων δάνεια καὶ μισθοὺσ καὶ ἀρραβῶνασ ἐπὶ χρείαισ διδομένουσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 2 27:1)

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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