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παρθενική

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρθενική

Structure: παρθενικ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for parqe/nos, Hom., Eur.

Sense

Declension

First declension

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

  • σὺν δὲ καὶ ὑψῆέν τε πανόσμεον ὅσσα τε τύμβοι φάσγανα παρθενικαῖσ νεοδουπέσιν ἀμφιχέονται, αὐταί τ’ ἠιθέασ ἀνεμωνίδεσ ἀστράπτουσαι τηλόθεν ὀξυτέρῃσιν ἐφελκόμεναι χροιῇσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 31 7:1)
  • μούνῳ μοι θέμισ ἐστὶ γυναικῶν ἐν φιλότητι μίσγεσθαι φανερῶσ, λισσομένων ποσίων μοῦνοσ δ’ ἠιθέοισι, καὶ ἀνδράσιν, ἠδὲ γέρουσιν, παρθενικαῖσ τ’ ἐπέβην ἀχνυμένων τοκέων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 552)
  • Ἀντομέναισ ποτὲ μῆλα φίλαισ διεμοιρήσαντο Ἰνὼ καὶ Σεμέλη δώδεκα παρθενικαῖσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 1191)

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

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