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ὄργυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄργυια ὀργυιας

Structure: ὀργυι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: o)re/gw, cf. a)guia

Sense

  1. fathom

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

  • ἦν δὲ τῆσ χιόνοσ τὸ βάθοσ ὀργυιά· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 5:3)
  • διάστημα δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ προτέρου τῶν κύκλων ἐπὶ τὸν δεύτερόν ἐστιν ὀργυιά· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 7:1)

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