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μελεδώνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: meledōnē

Principal Part: μελεδώνη

Structure: μελεδων (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. care, sorrow

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

  • ξύνηθες δὲ καὶ τοῖς ὑπό τε ἀνάγκαις ἐκδεδιῃ τημ ένοις λεπτῇ καὶ σκληροτέρῃ διαίτῃ, ἀτὰρ καὶ τοῖσι ἐς παιδείην πονεῦσι, καὶ ἐς τήνδε τλήμοσι, οἷσι θείης μὲν μαθήσιος ποθὴ, ὀλιγοσιτίη δὲ καὶ ἀγρυπνίη, καὶ μελεδώνη λόγων τε καὶ πρηγμάτων σοφῶν· οἷσι ὑπεροψίη μὲν διαίτης ἁδρῆς καὶ ποικίλης, λιμὸς δὲ ἡ τροφὴ, καὶ ὕδωρ ποτὸν, καὶ ἐν ὕπνῳ ἀϋπνίη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 153)
  • κἂν ὀλίγον νυκτός τις ἐπιμύσσῃσι, τὸν ὕπνον αἰφνίδιον θορυβεῦσιν ἐφιστάμεναι μελεδῶναι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 3)
  • Αἲ γὰρ ἄτερ νούσων τε καὶ ἀργαλέων μελεδωνῶν ἑξηκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου: (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other works68)
  • ἡ πάρος ἀγλαϊῄσι μετάρσιος, ἡ πλοκαμῖδας σειομένη πλεκτὰς, καὶ σοβαρευομένη, ἡ μεγαλαυχήσασα καθ ἡμετέρης μελεδώνης, γήραϊ ῥικνώδης, τὴν πρὶν ἀφῆκε χάριν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2731)

Synonyms

  1. care

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

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