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ὄχνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: ochnē

Principal Part: ὄχνη

Structure: ὀχν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: later form of ὄγχνη

Sense

  1. a wild pear

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄχνη ὄχνα ὄχναι
Genitive ὄχνης ὄχναιν ὀχνῶν
Dative ὄχνῃ ὄχναιν ὄχναις
Accusative ὄχνην ὄχνα ὄχνας
Vocative ὄχνη ὄχνα ὄχναι

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 ὄχνηͺ γηράσκει, μῆλον δ ἐπὶ μήλῳ, αὐτὰρ ἐπὶ σταφυλῇ σταφυλή, σῦκον δ ἐπὶ σύκῳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 56 7:2)

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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