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λοχεία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: locheia

Principal Part: λοχεία

Structure: λοχει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: λοχεύω

Sense

  1. childbirth, childbed

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λοχεία λοχεία λοχεῖαι
Genitive λοχείας λοχείαιν λοχειῶν
Dative λοχείᾳ λοχείαιν λοχείαις
Accusative λοχείαν λοχεία λοχείας
Vocative λοχεία λοχεία 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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