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νυμφών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυμφών νυμφῶνος

Structure: νυμφων (Stem)

Etym.: nu/mfh

Sense

  1. the bridechamber

Declension

Third 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

  • τότε εἶπε τὸ παιδάριον τῷ ἀγγέλῳ. Ἀζαρία ἀδελφέ, ἀκήκοα ἐγὼ τὸ κοράσιον δεδόσθαι ἑπτὰ ἀνδράσι καὶ πάντασ ἐν τῷ νυμφῶνι ἀπολωλότασ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 6:14)
  • καὶ ἀγάλματα Διονύσου καὶ Δήμητροσ καὶ Κόρησ τὰ πρόσωπα φαίνοντα ἐν τῷ Νυμφῶνί ἐστιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 6:3)

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

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