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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 ἐὰν εἰσέλθῃσ εἰσ τὸν νυμφῶνα, λήψῃ τέφραν θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἐπιθήσεισ ἀπὸ τῆσ καρδίασ καὶ τοῦ ἥπατοσ τοῦ ἰχθύοσ καὶ καπνίσεισ, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 6:17)
  • νυμφὼν δ’ ὁ σεμνὸσ, ἐκ ῥόδων πεπλεγμένοσ, ἐκ τῶν φόνων ἔσταξεν αἷμα φοίνιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 19 1:2)
  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ ὁ Ιἠσοῦσ Μὴ δύνανται οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ νυμφῶνοσ πενθεῖν ἐφ’ ὅσον μετ’ αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ὁ νυμφίοσ; (, chapter 1 329:1)
  • καὶ ἐπλήσθη ὁ νυμφὼν ἀνακειμένων. (, chapter 11 473:2)
  • οὕτω τοι καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ θήρᾳ ἐσπουδακότασ οὐ χρὴ ἀμελεῖν τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ τῆσ Ἀγροτέρασ οὐδὲ Ἀπόλλωνοσ οὐδὲ πανὸσ οὐδὲ Νυμφῶν οὐδὲ Ἑρμοῦ Ἐνοδίου καὶ Ἡγεμονίου, οὑδὲ ὅσοι ἄλλοι ὄρειοι θεοὶ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 35 3:1)
  • μὴ σύ γε τὰ Νυμφῶν διολέσῃσ ἱδρύματα καὶ Πανὸσ ἕδρασ ἔνθ’ ἔχει συρίγματα. (Euripides, episode 1:6)
  • ἀδμήτην γάρ φησιν τὴν Εὐρυσθέωσ ἐξ Ἄργουσ φυγοῦσαν ἐλθεῖν εἰσ Σάμον, θεασαμένην δὲ τὴν τῆσ Ἥρασ ἐπιφάνειαν καὶ τῆσ οἴκοθεν σωτηρίασ χαριστήριον βουλομένην ἀποδοῦναι ἐπιμεληθῆναι τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ καὶ νῦν ὑπάρχοντοσ, πρότερον δὲ ὑπὸ Λελέγων καὶ Νυμφῶν καθιδρυμένου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 12 2:3)
  • Νίκανδροσ δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ Γεωργικῶν καταλέγων καὶ αὐτὸσ στεφανωτικὰ ἄνθη καὶ περὶ Ιὠνιάδων Νυμφῶν καὶ περὶ ῥόδων τάδε λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 311)
  • οἱ δ’ ἱππεῖσ τῶν Συβαριτῶν ὑπὲρ τοὺσ πεντακισχιλίουσ ὄντεσ ἐπόμπευον ἔχοντεσ κροκωτοὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ θώραξιν, καὶ τοῦ θέρουσ οἱ νεώτεροι αὐτῶν εἰσ τὰ τῶν Νυμφῶν ἄντρα τῶν Λουσιάδων ἀποδημοῦντεσ διετέλουν μετὰ πάσησ τρυφῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 17 1:1)

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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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