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ὄχνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄχνη

Structure: ὀχν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: later form of o)/gxnh

Sense

  1. a wild pear

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄχνη ό̓χνᾱ ό̓χναι
Genitive ό̓χνης ό̓χναιν ὀχνῶν
Dative ό̓χνῃ ό̓χναιν ό̓χναις
Accusative ό̓χνην ό̓χνᾱ ό̓χνᾱς
Vocative ό̓χνη ό̓χνᾱ ό̓χναι

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

  • Κολωνοῦ δὲ δικάσαντοσ, οἱ μὲν ἀδελφοὶ τῆσ Ὄχνησ ἔφυγον, αὐτὴ δὲ κατεκρήμνισεν ἑαυτήν, ὡσ Μυρτὶσ ἡ Ἀνθηδονία ποιήτρια μελῶν ἱστόρηκε. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 40 2:2)
  • Ὄχνησ ἔφυγον, αὐτὴ δὲ κατεκρήμνισεν ἑαυτήν, ὡσ Μυρτὶσ ἡ Ἀνθηδονία ποιήτρια μελῶν ἱστόρηκε. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 40 5:4)
  • τοσαύτην δ’ ὀπώραν ἐκδίδωσιν ἡ παρόρειοσ τὴν αὐτοφυῆ καὶ ἀγρίαν σταφυλῆσ τε καὶ ὄχνησ καὶ μήλου καὶ τῶν καρυωδῶν ὥστε κατὰ πᾶσαν τοῦ ἔτουσ ὡρ́αν ἀφθόνωσ εὐπορεῖν τοὺσ ἐξιόντασ ἐπὶ τὴν ὕλην, τοτὲ μὲν ἔτι κρεμαμένων τῶν καρπῶν ἐν τοῖσ δένδρεσι, τοτὲ δ’ ἐν τῇ πεπτωκυίᾳ φυλλάδι καὶ ὑπ’ αὐτῇ κειμένων βαθείᾳ καὶ πολλῇ κεχυμένῃ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 30:11)

Synonyms

  1. a wild pear

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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