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νοθεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νοθεία

Structure: νοθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from noqeu/w

Sense

  1. birth out of wedlock

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

  • διὸ καὶ τῶν νόθων εἰσ Κυνόσαργεσ συντελούντων τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν ἔξω πυλῶν γυμνάσιον Ἡρακλέουσ, ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖνοσ οὐκ ἦν γνήσιοσ ἐν θεοῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἐνείχετο νοθείᾳ διὰ τὴν μητέρα θνητὴν οὖσαν ἔπειθέ τινασ ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ τῶν εὖ γεγονότων νεανίσκων καταβαίνοντασ εἰσ τὸ Κυνόσαργεσ ἀλείφεσθαι μετ’ αὐτοῦ. (Plutarch, , chapter 1 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. birth out of wedlock

Related

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

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