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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

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

ὁ δ’ Ἐλιεὺσ ἐκείνουσ ἔδησεν ἡ δ’ Ὄχνη μεταμελομένη καὶ γέμουσα ταραχῆσ, ἅμα μὲν αὑτὴν ἀπαλλάξαι θέλουσα τῆσ διὰ τὸν ἔρωτα λύπησ, ἅμα δ’ οἰκτίρουσα τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ ἐξήγγειλε πρὸσ τὸν Ἐλιέα πᾶσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἐκεῖνοσ δὲ Κολωνῷ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 40 2:1)
ἡ δ’ Ὄχνη μεταμελομένη καὶ γέμουσα ταραχῆσ, ἅμα μὲν αὑτὴν ἀπαλλάξαι θέλουσα τῆσ διὰ τὸν ἔρωτα λύπησ, ἅμα δ’ οἰκτίρουσα τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 40 4:1)
Ὄχνη, χειρὸσ ἐμῆσ γλυκερὸσ πόνοσ, ᾗ μὲν ἐφ’ ὑγρῷ φλοιῷ φύλλον ἔδησα θέρει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 51)
πτόρθοσ δ’ ἐπὶ δένδρῳ ῥιζωθεὶσ δένδροιο τομῇ, καὶ καρπὸν ἀμείψασ, νέρθε μὲν ἀχρὰσ ἔτ’ ἐστίν, ὕπερθε δ’ ἄρ’ εὔπνοοσ ὄχνη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 52)
καὶ τὰσ ὀπώρασ δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ παρ’ ὅλον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἀκμάζειν, ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ ποιητήσ φησιν ὄχνη ἐπ’ ὄχνῃ γηράσκει, μῆλον δ’ ἐπὶ μήλῳ, αὐτὰρ ἐπὶ σταφυλῇ σταφυλή, σῦκον δ’ ἐπὶ σύκῳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 56 7:2)

Synonyms

a wild pear
- ἄπιον (a pear)
- ἄχερδος (a wild prickly shrub, a wild pear)
- ἄπιος (a pear-tree)
- ὄγχνη (a pear-tree)

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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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a wild pear

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