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νύμφη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύμφη νύμφης

Structure: νυμφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. bride, young wife
  2. young girl
  3. daughter-in-law
  4. nymph
  5. spring, water
  6. bee or wasp in pupa stage
  7. male ant
  8. clitoris

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

  • ἦ τᾷ Λακεδαιμονίᾳ νύμφᾳ δούλαν; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric11)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦλθ’ ἔχων μοι μαινάδ’ ἔνθεον κόρην λέκτροισ τ’ ἐπεισέφρηκε, καὶ νύμφα δύο ἐν τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσ δώμασιν κατείχομεν. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:20)
  • <ποτνίασ δ’ ἐμᾶσ,> ἔνθεν οἰκτρὸν ἀνεβόασεν, ὅμαδον ἔκλυον, ἄλυρον ἔλεγον, ὅτι ποτ’ ἔλακεν αἰάγμα σι στένουσα, Νύμφα τισ οἱᾶ Ναὶ̈σ ὄρεσι φυγάδα νόμον ἱεῖσα γοερόν, ὑπὸ δὲ πέτρινα γύαλα κλαγγαῖσι Πανὸσ ἀναβοᾷ γάμουσ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • νύμφα ἀπειρόγαμοσ τεύτλῳ περὶ σῶμα καλυπτὰ λευκόχρωσ παρέσται, ἔγχελυσ, ὦ μέγα μοι μέγα σοι φάοσ ὅσσον ἐναργέσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 562)
  • ἔτεκεν ἔτεκε δὴ μεγάλαν ἁ νέορτοσ ἅδε νύμφα δόμοισι τοῖσδ’ ἐρινύν. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, lyric14)

Synonyms

  1. bride

  2. young girl

  3. daughter-in-law

  4. nymph

  5. spring

  6. male ant

  7. clitoris

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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