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οὐρανίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐρανίς οὐρανίδος

Structure: οὐρανιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pecul. fem. of ou)ra/nios, Anth.

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • λῦσε δὲ πατροκασιγνήτουσ ὀλοῶν ὑπὸ δεσμῶν Οὐρανίδασ, οὓσ δῆσε πατὴρ ἀεσιφροσύνῃσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 46:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ἴθι ναούσ, ἴθι πρὸσ βωμούσ, ἵζ’ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἱκέτισ γονάτων, κήρυσσε θεοὺσ τούσ τ’ οὐρανίδασ τούσ θ’ ὑπὸ γαῖαν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 2:3)

Similar forms

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

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