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ὄγχνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: onchnē

Principal Part: ὄγχνη

Structure: ὀγχν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pear-tree

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

  • ὄγχνη γάρ, φησίν, ἐπ ὄγχνῃ καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 16 2:1)
  • ἐπιμελουμένους δὲ αὐτοὺς εἰσάγει καὶ τῶν ἀκροδρύων "ὄγχνη γὰρ ἐπ ὄγχνῃ που γηράσκει, σῦκον δ ἐπὶ σύκῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 45 1:2)
  • ὄγχνη ἐπ ὄγχνηͺ γηράσκει, μῆλον δ ἐπὶ μήλῳ, αὐτὰρ ἐπὶ σταφυλῇ σταφυλή, σῦκον δ ἐπὶ σύκῳ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 10:8)
  • "ὦ γέρον, οὐκ ἀδαημονίη ς ἔχει ἀμφιπολεύειν ὄρχατον, ἀλλ εὖ τοι κομιδὴ ἔχει, οὐδέ τι πάμπαν, οὐ φυτόν, οὐ συκέη, οὐκ ἄμπελος, οὐ μὲν ἐλαίη, οὐκ ὄγχνη, οὐ πρασιή τοι ἄνευ κομιδῆς κατὰ κῆπον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 21:1)
  • Τοῦτον πρῶτον Φαβωρῖνος ἐν Παντοδαπῇ ἱστορίᾳ λόγον δικανικὸν ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ συγγράψαι φησὶν ἐπ αὐτῇ ταύτῃ τῇ δίκῃ καὶ λέγειν ὡς Ἀθήνησιν ὄγχνη ἐπ ὄγχνηͺ γηράσκει, σῦκον δ ἐπὶ σύκῳ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pear-tree

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

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