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παρθένειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρθένειος

Structure: παρθενει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a maiden

Examples

  • κἀπεὶ σὲ τίκτω, συγγόνουσ αἰδουμένη καὶ παρθενείαν, ἧκ’ ἐσ εὐύδρου πατρὸσ δίνασ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 2:1)
  • ἢ γάμον Ἀθηνᾶ θεῶν τίνοσ θηρωμένη ‐ ἣ παρθενείαν πατρὸσ ἐξῃτήσατο, φεύγουσα λέκτρα; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:26)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to a maiden

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

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