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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

  1. loud wailing, lamentation

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

  • καὶ θεωρήσαντεσ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι μέγα εἰσ οὐρανὸν ἀνέκραξαν, ὥστε καὶ τοὺσ παρακειμένουσ αὐλῶνασ συνηχήσαντασ ἀκατάσχετον οἰμωγὴν ποιῆσαι παντὶ τῷ στρατοπέδῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:17)
  • καταλήξαντεσ δὲ θρήνου πανόδυρτον μέλοσ ἀνέλαβον ᾠδὴν πάτριον, τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ τερατοποιὸν αἰνοῦντεσ Θεόν. οἰμωγήν τε πᾶσαν καὶ κωκυτὸν ἀπωσάμενοι χοροὺσ συνίσταντο εὐφροσύνησ εἰρηνικῆσ σημεῖον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:32)
  • ἠκούσατ’ ἀνδρὸσ Θρῃκὸσ οἰμωγήν, φίλαι; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:2)
  • ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὴν οἰμωγὴν αὐτῶν ἐπικλασθέντασ τοὺσ θεοὺσ πῦρ τε ἀναδεῖξαι ἀπὸ τῆσ Λυκίασ, ὡσ γνωρίσαι τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον, καί τινα λαμπρὸν ἀστέρα Διοσκούρων τὸν ἕτερον ἐπικαθίσαι τῷ καρχησίῳ καὶ κατευθῦναι τὴν ναῦν ἐπὶ τὰ λαιὰ ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ ἤδη τῷ κρημνῷ προσφερομένην· (Lucian, 17:2)
  • φόνιον οἰμωγὴν κλύω. (Euripides, episode9)

Synonyms

  1. loud wailing

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

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