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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

  • ἔτι τρεῖσ ἡμέραι καὶ μνησθήσεται Φαραὼ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ σου καὶ ἀποκαταστήσει σε ἐπί τὴν ἀρχιοινοχοί̈αν σου, καὶ δώσεισ τὸ ποτήριον Φαραὼ εἰσ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχήν σου τὴν προτέραν, ὡσ ἦσθα οἰνοχοῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 40:13)
  • ἀπέρχομαι γάρ τι διακονησόμενοσ τῷ ἄνω Διὶ τῶν ἀνθρωπικῶν ὁ δὲ ὀξύθυμὸσ τέ ἐστι ^ καὶ δέδια μὴ βραδύναντά με ὅλον ὑμέτερον ἐάσῃ εἶναι παραδοὺσ τῷ ζόφῳ, ἢ ὅπερ τὸν Ἥφαιστον πρῴην ἐποίησε, ῥίψῃ κἀμὲ τεταγὼν τοῦ ποδὸσ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεσπεσίου βηλοῦ, ὡσ ὑποσκάζων γέλωτα παρέχοιμι καὶ αὐτὸσ οἰνοχοῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 1:8)
  • οὐκ ἐθέλω Χαρίδαμον ὁ γὰρ καλὸσ εἰσ Δία λεύσσει, ὡσ ἤδη νέκταρ τῷ θεῷ οἰνοχοῶν οὐκ ἐθέλω· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 681)
  • οὕτωσ ἠπόρεισ οἰνοχόων, καὶ ἀπηγορεύκασιν ἄρα ἥ τε Ἥβη καὶ ὁ Ἥφαιστοσ διακονούμενοι; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:3)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, οἱ ὡραιότατοι τῶν οἰνοχόων φαλακροὶ ἐν ἀκαρεῖ τοῦ χρόνου ὑμῖν γενήσονται, ἐπὶ κατεαγότι καὶ ταῦτα τῷ ἀμφορεῖ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 5:5)
  • δείξω δὲ ὅτι καὶ ὁ κύαθοσ εἴρηται καὶ τὸ ἀκρατέστερον, καὶ περὶ οἰνοχόων, πρότερον δέ μοι λελέξεται περὶ τοῦ ζωρότερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 21 5:1)

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

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