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λύκαινα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύκαινα

Structure: λυκαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of lu/kos,

Sense

  1. a she-wolf

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λύκαινα λυκαίνᾱ λύκαιναι
Genitive λυκαίνης λυκαίναιν λυκαινῶν
Dative λυκαίνῃ λυκαίναιν λυκαίναις
Accusative λύκαιναν λυκαίνᾱ λυκαίνᾱς
Vocative λύκαινα λυκαίνᾱ λύκαιναι

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

  • γοναὶ μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν ἀπόρρητοι λέγονται, τροφαὶ δὲ καὶ τιθηνήσεισ ἀτοπώτεραι νεογνῶν, οἷσ ἐρρίφημεν οἰωνοῖσ καὶ θηρίοισ, ὑπὸ τούτων τρεφόμενοι, μαστῷ λυκαίνησ καὶ δρυοκολάπτου ψωμίσμασιν, ἐν σκάφῃ τινὶ κείμενοι παρὰ τὸν μέγαν ποταμόν. (Plutarch, chapter 7 6:1)
  • δύναται γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆσ λυκαίνησ γεγονέναι τοὔνομα. (Plutarch, chapter 21 4:2)
  • ἕτεροι δὲ οὐδὲν τῶν μυθωδεστέρων ἀξιοῦντεσ ἱστορικῇ γραφῇ προσήκειν τήν τε ἀπόθεσιν τὴν τῶν βρεφῶν οὐχ ὡσ ἐκελεύσθη τοῖσ ὑπηρέταισ γενομένην ἀπίθανον εἶναί φασι, καὶ τῆσ λυκαίνησ τὸ τιθασόν, ἣ τοὺσ μαστοὺσ ἐπεῖχε τοῖσ παιδίοισ, ὡσ δραματικῆσ μεστὸν ἀτοπίασ διασύρουσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 84 1:1)
  • ἀγνοοῦντασ δέ τινασ αὐτὸ πλάσαι τὸν περὶ τῆσ λυκαίνησ μῦθον, ἐπειδὴ κατὰ τὴν γλῶτταν, ἣν τὸ Λατίνων ἔθνοσ φθέγγεται, λούπα καλεῖται τοῦτο τὸ θηρίον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 84 5:3)
  • μυθεύεται μὲν οὖν ἐξ Ἄρεωσ γενέσθαι τοὺσ παῖδασ, ἐκτεθέντασ δ’ ὑπὸ λυκαίνησ ὁραθῆναι σκυλακευομένουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 4:15)

Synonyms

  1. a she-wolf

Related

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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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