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μελεδώνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελεδώνη

Structure: μελεδων (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: meledai/nw

Sense

  1. care, sorrow

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μελεδώνη μελεδώνᾱ μελεδῶναι
Genitive μελεδώνης μελεδώναιν μελεδωνῶν
Dative μελεδώνῃ μελεδώναιν μελεδώναις
Accusative μελεδώνην μελεδώνᾱ μελεδώνᾱς
Vocative μελεδώνη μελεδώνᾱ μελεδῶναι

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

Similar forms

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

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