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νέκυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέκυια

Structure: νεκυι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ne/kus

Sense

  1. by which ghosts were called up and questioned

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

  • 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

Related

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

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