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οἰνοχόη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰνοχόη

Structure: οἰνοχο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. a can for ladling wine

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

  • συνήγαγόν μοι καί γε ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον καὶ περιουσιασμοὺσ βασιλέων καὶ τῶν χωρῶν. ἐποίησά μοι ᾄδοντασ καὶ ἆδούσασ καὶ ἐντρυφήματα υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἰνοχόον καὶ οἰνοχόασ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:8)
  • ἠκολούθουν δ’ αὐτῷ Σάτυροι καὶ Σιληνοὶ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἐστεφανωμένοι, φέροντεσ οἱ μὲν οἰνοχόασ, οἱ δὲ φιάλασ, οἱ δὲ θηρικλείουσ μεγάλασ, πάντα χρυσᾶ, ἐχόμενοσ ἤγετο κρατὴρ ἀργυροῦσ ἑξακοσίουσ χωρῶν μετρητὰσ ἐπὶ τετρακύκλου ἑλκομένησ ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν ἑξακοσίων, εἶχε δὲ ὑπὸ τὰ χείλη καὶ τὰ ὦτα καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν βάσιν ζῷα τετορευμένα καὶ διὰ μέσου ἐστεφάνωτο στεφάνῳ χρυσῷ διαλίθῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:131)
  • Οἰνοχόασ δ’ ὁ βασιλεὺσ μυριάδασ ὀκτὼ κατεσκεύασε καὶ φιαλῶν χρυσέων δέκα ἀργυρέασ δὲ διπλασίονασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 116:1)
  • ἐπισκευασθέντοσ δὲ τοῦ ναοῦ τὸν ὑπολειφθέντα χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον, οὐκ ὀλίγοσ δὲ ἦν, εἴσ τε κρατῆρασ καὶ οἰνοχόασ καὶ ἐκπώματα καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ σκεύη κατεχρήσαντο θυσίαισ τε πολυτελέσιν ὁσημέραι τὸν βωμὸν πιαίνοντεσ διετέλουν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 203:1)

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

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