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νέκυια?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: nekuia

Principal Part: νέκυια

Structure: νεκυι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: νέκυς

Sense

  1. by which ghosts were called up and questioned

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νέκυια νεκυία νέκυιαι
Genitive νεκυίας νεκυίαιν νεκυιῶν
Dative νεκυίᾳ νεκυίαιν νεκυίαις
Accusative νεκυίαν νεκυία νεκυίας
Vocative νεκυία νεκυία νέκυιαι

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

  • φαίνεται δ αὖ τοὺς σοφιστὰς κατὰ τοὺς ἐν Αἵδου κολαζομένους τιθεὶς καὶ καταλέγων, Καὶ μὴν Τάνταλον εἰσεῖδον καὶ τὸν δὲ μετ εἰσενόησα τοῖς ἐκ Νεκυίας αὐτοὺς κόσμοις τιμῶν, Πρόδικον μὲν ὡς Τάνταλον ὄντα, Ἱππίαν δὲ ὡς τὸ εἴδωλον τοῦ Ἡρακλέους. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 176:9)

Synonyms

  1. by which ghosts were called up and questioned

    • νεκυϊσμός (a magical rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future)

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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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