Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὄρφνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρφνη

Structure: ὀρφν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. darkness of night, night
  2. darkness of the nether world

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

  • ἀμφιλαφὴσ δ’ ἄρα παστὰσ ἐνεπλήσθη πάλιν ὄρφνασ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 26)

Synonyms

  1. darkness of night

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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