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ὀχεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχεία

Structure: ὀχει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o)xeu/w

Sense

  1. a covering or impregnating

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

  • φυλάσσειν δὲ ἀπὸ ὀχείασ ἐντὸσ τῆσδε τῆσ ἡλικίασ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 26 4:1)
  • πόθεν δ’ ὅτι ὁ μὲν ἄρρην ἵπποσ ζῇ ἔτη πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα, ἡ δὲ θήλεια πλείω τῶν τεσσαράκοντα, βιῶσαι φήσασ τινὰ καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε, ἱστορεῖ δ’ ὅτι καὶ ἐκ τῆσ τῶν φθειρῶν ὀχείασ αἱ κόνιδεσ γεννῶνται καὶ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ σκώληκοσ μεταβάλλοντοσ γίνεται κάμπη ἐξ ἧσ βομβυλιόσ, ἀφ’ οὗ ὁ νεκύδαλλοσ ὀνομαζόμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 2:2)
  • ἵπποισ ὁρμῆσ ἐπεγερτικὸν ὡσ ἐοίκεν ἐνδιδόντα πρὸσ τὰσ ὀχείασ· (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 0 2:2)
  • πέτονταί τε περὶ τὸν τῆσ ὀχείασ καιρὸν χάσκοντεσ καὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν ἔξω ἔχοντεσ οἵ τε θήλεισ καὶ οἱ ἄρρενεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 6:2)
  • φανερώτατον δὲ γίνεται περὶ τὰσ ὀχείασ, ὅταν ἐξ ἐναντίασ αὐτοῖσ θῇσ κάτοπτρον προστρέχοντεσ γάρ διὰ τὴν ἔμφασιν ἁλίσκονταί τε καὶ προϊένται τὸ σπέρμα, πλὴν τῶν ἀλεκτρυόνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 7:3)

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

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