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νύμφαιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύμφαιον νύμφαιου

Structure: νυμφαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: nu/mfh

Sense

  1. a temple of the nymphs

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

  • μεστὴ δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ πᾶσα ἀρτεμισίων τε καὶ ἀφροδισίων καὶ νυμφαίων ἐν ἄλσεσιν ἀνθέων πλέῳσ τὸ πολὺ διὰ τὴν εὐυδρίαν, συχνὰ δὲ καὶ ἑρμεῖα ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, ποσείδια δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀκταῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 24:15)

Synonyms

  1. a temple of the nymphs

Related

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

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