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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

  • δι’ ὃ καὶ μάλιστα δοκεῖ τὸν Δημήτριον φοβηθεὶσ ἀποκτεῖναι, μὴ γνήσιον ἔχων ὃ οἶκοσ διάδοχον ἀποκαλύψῃ τὴν ἐκείνου νοθείαν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 8 7:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀγησίλαοσ ἔφη καὶ τὸν Ποσειδῶ καταμαρτυρεῖν τοῦ Λεωτυχίδου τὴν νοθείαν, ἐκβαλόντα σεισμῷ τοῦ θαλάμου τὸν Ἆγιν ἀπ’ ἐκείνου δὲ πλέον ἢ δέκα μηνῶν διελθόντων γενέσθαι τὸν Λεωτυχίδην. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 3 5:2)
  • τυχὸν δὲ καὶ μαχιμώτατοσ ἔσῃ τῶν ἄλλων διὰ ταύτην τὴν νοθείαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 23:4)

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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