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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

  • ἀκήρατον δέ μ’ ἐκ πατρὸσ λαβὼν δόμων πρῶτοσ τὸ παρθένειον ἐζεύξω λέχοσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:2)
  • λιτὰσ δὲ καὶ κληδόνασ πατρῴουσ παρ’ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθένειον ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 5 1:1)

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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