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νόθος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόθος νόθου

Structure: νοθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (at Athens) a child of a citizen father and an alien mother
  2. (plural only, in Egypt) a class of temple-attendants

Declension

Second 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

  • οὐ τοῖαι γεγάασιν ἐν Ἀργείοισι γυναῖκεσ, καὶ γὰρ ἀκιδνοτέροισιν ἀεξόμεναι μελέεσσιν ἀνδρῶν εἶδοσ ἔχουσι, νόθοι δ’ ἐγένοντο γυναῖκεσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1147)
  • ὅσον δὲ τῆσ εὐνοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ τὰσ πατρίδασ μέτεστιν τοῖσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ γνησίοισ πολίταισ μάθοι τισ ἂν ἐκ τῶν αὐτοχθόνων οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐπήλυδεσ καθάπερ νόθοι ῥᾳδίασ ποιοῦνται τὰσ μεταναστάσεισ, τὸ μὲν τῆσ πατρίδοσ ὄνομα μήτε εἰδότεσ μήτε στέργοντεσ, ἡγούμενοι δ’ ἁπανταχοῦ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων εὐπορήσειν, μέτρον εὐδαιμονίασ τὰσ τῆσ γαστρὸσ ἡδονὰσ τιθέμενοι. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 10:1)
  • "νῦν μέντοι γνήσιοι, ἔφη, καὶ οὐ νόθοι βασιλεῖσ γεννηθήσονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 511)
  • "ἡμεῖσ δὲ σοι, κακὴ κεφαλὴ, νόθοι δοκοῦμεν; (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 9 4:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν προσπταίσασ τισ ἄρχῃ Λακεδαιμονίων, δυσχεραίνειν τὸν θεόν, ἀλλὰ χωλὴν εἶναι τὴν βασιλείαν εἰ νόθοι καὶ κακῶσ γεγονότεσ βασιλεύσουσι σὺν Ἡρακλείδαισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 22 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a child of a citizen father and an alien mother

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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