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μοναυλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοναυλία

Structure: μοναυλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: au)lh/

Sense

  1. a living alone, celibacy

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μοναυλία μοναυλίᾱ μοναυλίαι
Genitive μοναυλίᾱς μοναυλίαιν μοναυλιῶν
Dative μοναυλίᾱͅ μοναυλίαιν μοναυλίαις
Accusative μοναυλίᾱν μοναυλίᾱ μοναυλίᾱς
Vocative μοναυλίᾱ μοναυλίᾱ μοναυλίαι

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

  • μὲν οὖν τῷ νόμῳ ἀζήμιοσ ἀπαλλάττοιτο ἄν, μὴ πειθόμενοσ δὲ αὖ, μηδὲ γαμῶν ἔτη τριάκοντα γεγονὼσ καὶ πέντε, ζημιούσθω μὲν κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν τόσῳ καὶ τόσῳ, ἵνα μὴ δοκῇ τὴν μοναυλίαν οἱ κέρδοσ καὶ ῥᾳστώνην φέρειν, καὶ μὴ μετεχέτω δὲ τιμῶν ὧν ἂν οἱ νεώτεροι ἐν τῇ πόλει τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ αὑτῶν τιμῶσιν ἑκάστοτε. (Plato, Laws, book 4 109:1)

Synonyms

  1. a living alone

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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