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νευρή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νευρή

Structure: νευρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for neura/.

Sense

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

  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτὴν Σαμψών. ἐὰν δήσωσί με ἐν ἑπτὰ νευραῖσ ὑγραῖσ μὴ διεφθαρμέναισ, καὶ ἀσθενήσω καὶ ἔσομαι ὡσ εἷσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 16:7)
  • ΣΥΝΕΒΗ δὲ καὶ ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοὺσ μετὰ τῆσ μητρὸσ συλληφθέντασ ἀναγκάζεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀθεμίτων ὑείων κρεῶν ἐφάπτεσθαι μάστιξι καὶ νευραῖσ αἰκιζομένουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 7:1)
  • ‐ ζεύγνυτε κερόδετα τόξα νευραῖσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 17)
  • πρὸσ γὰρ ἐμὰν μελέταν ὁ μεσαμβρινὸσ οὔρεσιν ᾠδὸσ τῆνο τὸ ποιμενικὸν φθέγμα μεθηρμόσατο, καὶ μὲν ὅτε φθέγγοιτο σὺν ἀψύχοισ τόκα νευραῖσ τῷ μεταβαλλομένῳ συμμετέπιπτε θρόῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 584 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τοῖσ πελτασταῖσ πᾶσι παρήγγειλε διηγκυλωμένουσ ἰέναι, ὡσ, ὁπόταν σημήνῃ, ἀκοντίζειν, καὶ τοὺσ τοξότασ ἐπιβεβλῆσθαι ἐπὶ ταῖσ νευραῖσ, ὡσ, ὁπόταν σημήνῃ, τοξεύειν δεῆσον, καὶ τοὺσ γυμνῆτασ λίθων ἔχειν μεστὰσ τὰσ διφθέρασ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 14:2)

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

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