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νυκτῷον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτῷον νυκτῷου

Structure: νυκτῳ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: Nu/c

Sense

  1. a temple of Night

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυκτῷον νυκτῴω νυκτῷα
Genitive νυκτῴου νυκτῴοιν νυκτῴων
Dative νυκτῴῳ νυκτῴοιν νυκτῴοις
Accusative νυκτῷον νυκτῴω νυκτῷα
Vocative νυκτῷον νυκτῴω νυκτῷα

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

  • εἰσιόντι δὲ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ἐν δεξιᾷ μέν ἐστι τὸ Νυκτῷον ‐ σέβουσι γὰρ θεῶν ταύτην μάλιστα καὶ τὸν Ἀλεκτρυόνα· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 33:6)

Synonyms

  1. a temple of Night

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

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