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μορφώτρια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μορφώτρια

Structure: μορφωτρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: morfo/w

Sense

  1. changing men into

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

  • οὗ δὴ στενὸν δίαυλον ᾤκισται πέτρασ δεινὴ Χάρυβδισ, ὠμοβρώσ τ’ ὀρειβάτησ Κύκλωψ, Λιγυστίσ θ’ ἡ συῶν μορφώτρια Κίρκη, θαλάσσησ θ’ ἁλμυρᾶσ ναυάγια, λωτοῦ τ’ ἔρωτεσ, Ἡλίου θ’ ἁγναὶ βόεσ, αἳ σάρκα φωνήεσσαν ἥσουσίν ποτε, πικρὰν Ὀδυσσεῖ γῆρυν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 3:18)

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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