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οἰμωγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰμωγή

Structure: οἰμωγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from oi)mw/zw

Sense

loud wailing, lamentation

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	οἰμωγή	οἰμωγᾱ́	οἰμωγαί
Genitive	οἰμωγῆς	οἰμωγαῖν	οἰμωγῶν
Dative	οἰμωγῇ	οἰμωγαῖν	οἰμωγαῖς
Accusative	οἰμωγήν	οἰμωγᾱ́	οἰμωγᾱ́ς
Vocative	οἰμωγή	οἰμωγᾱ́	οἰμωγαί

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

πρέποι γὰρ ἂν ταῖσ τοιαύταισ οἰμωγαῖσ ἐπᾳδόμενον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:11)
ὀρεί‐ α δ’ ἀθυρόστομοσ Ἀχὼ τηλεφανὴσ πικραῖσ οἰμωγαῖσ ὑπακούει. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 22)
ταῦτα λέξαντοσ αὐτοῦ καταβαίνειν τ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματοσ βουλομένου κραυγή τ’ ἐξ ἁπάντων ἐγίνετο καὶ δεήσεισ πολλαὶ σὺν οἰμωγαῖσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδενὶ παραχωρεῖν τῆσ ἀρχῆσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 37 7:1)
καὶ πολλαὶ καὶ τοῦτο ἐν ταῖσ οἰμωγαῖσ κατεμαντεύοντο τῇ πόλει, μηδὲν αὐτὴν ὀνήσειν τοὺσ παῖδασ ἐκδιδομένουσ· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 4:6)
καὶ τὸ μὲν πλέον αὐτῶν ἅμα ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ κατέβαλλε τὰ ὅπλα καὶ πρὸσ οἰμωγαῖσ ἦν, φραξάμενοι δὲ ὀλίγοι τῶν νέων γενναίωσ ἐδέχοντο τοὺσ Ἰδουμαίουσ καὶ μέχρι πολλοῦ τὴν ἀργοτέραν πληθὺν ἔσκεπον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 350:1)

Synonyms

loud wailing
- οἴμωγμα (a cry of lamentation, wail)
- ἰάλεμος (a wail, lament, dirge)
- θρῆνος (wailing, lamenting, dirge)
- ὀλολυγμός (a loud crying, a joyous cry, lamentation)

Similar forms

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

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