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νάπη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νάπη

Structure: ναπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a wooded vale, dell, glen

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

  • ὡσεὶ νάπαι σκιάζουσαι καὶ ὡσεὶ παράδεισοι ἐπὶ ποταμῷ καὶ ὡσεὶ σκηναί, ἃσ ἔπηξε Κύριοσ, καὶ ὡσεὶ κέδροι παρ’ ὕδατα. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 24:6)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ σοὶ κτυπεῖται Κιθαιρώνιοσ ἠχώ, μελάμφυλλά τ’ ὄρη δάσκια καὶ νάπαι πετρώδεισ βρέμονται· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 31)
  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Μάριοσ, ἦσαν γάρ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ τῶν βαρβάρων νάπαι περικλινεῖσ καὶ κατάσκιοι δρυμοῖσ αὐλῶνεσ, ἐνταῦθα Κλαύδιον Μάρκελλον ἐκπέμπει μετὰ τρισχιλίων ὁπλιτῶν, ἐνεδρεῦσαι κελεύσασ κρύφα καὶ μαχομένοισ ἐξόπισθεν ἐπιφανῆναι. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 20 4:1)
  • αἱ δὲ τὸν ἄκρησ γείτονα ποιμένιαι πολλὰ ποθοῦσι νάπαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 717 1:2)
  • αἵ τε ὄχθαι, ὑψηλότεραι τῶν νεῶν πολλαχῇ οὖσαι, ἐσ στενόν τε τὴν βοὴν ξυνάγουσαι καὶ τῇ ξυναγωγῇ αὐτῇ ἐπὶ μέγα ηὐξημένην ἐσ ἀλλήλασ ἀντέπεμπον, καί που καὶ νάπαι ἑκατέρωθεν τοῦ ποταμοῦ τῇ τε ἐρημίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀντιπέμψει τοῦ κτύπου καὶ αὗται ξυνεπελάμβανον· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 3 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a wooded vale

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

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