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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)
  • μηδέ ποτ’ οἰνοχόην τιθέμεν κρητῆροσ ὕπερθε πινόντων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 88:1)
  • μάταν ἄρ’, ὦ χρυσέαισ ἐν οἰνοχόαισ ἁβρὰ βαίνων, Λαομεδόντιε παῖ, Ζηνὸσ ἔχεισ κυλίκων πλήρωμα, καλλίσταν λατρείαν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 21)
  • "ἔφερον δ’ οἱ μὲν οἰνοχόην χρυσῆν, οἱ δὲ καρχήσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:114)
  • "ναὸσ Βυζαντίων, ἐν ᾧ Τρίτων κυπαρίσσινοσ ἔχων κρατάνιον ἀργυροῦν, σειρὴν ἀργυρᾶ, καρχήσια β’ ἀργυρᾶ, κύλιξ ἀργυρᾶ, οἰνοχόη χρυσῆ, κέρατα δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 59 1:5)

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

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