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παρθενών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρθενών παρθενῶνος

Structure: παρθενων (Stem)

Etym.: parqe/nos

Sense

  1. the maidens' apartments, young women's chambers
  2. the Parthenon or temple of Athena Parthenos

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παρθενών παρθενῶνε παρθενῶνες
Genitive παρθενῶνος παρθενώνοιν παρθενώνων
Dative παρθενῶνι παρθενώνοιν παρθενῶσιν*
Accusative παρθενῶνα παρθενῶνε παρθενῶνας
Vocative παρθενών παρθενῶνε παρθενῶνες

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

  • θάψαι γὰρ ὅσουσ ἐβούλοντο Περσῶν ἔδωκεν, ἐσθῆτι καὶ κόσμῳ χρησαμέναισ ἐκ τῶν λαφύρων, θεραπείασ τε καὶ τιμῆσ ἦν εἶχον οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἀφεῖλε, συντάξεισ δὲ καὶ μείζονασ ἐκαρποῦντο τῶν προτέρων, ἡ δὲ καλλίστη καὶ βασιλικωτάτη χάρισ ἦν παρ’ αὐτοῦ γυναιξὶ γενναίαισ γενομέναισ αἰχμαλώτοισ καὶ σώφροσι μήτε ἀκοῦσαι τι μήτε ὑπονοῆσαι μήτε προσδοκῆσαι τῶν αἰσχρῶν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οὐκ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ πολεμίων, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἱεροῖσ καὶ ἁγίοισ υλαττομένασ φυλαττομένασ παρθενῶσιν ἀπόρρητον ἔχειν καὶ ἀόρατον ἑτέροισ δίαιταν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 21 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. the maidens' apartments

  2. the Parthenon or temple of Athena Parthenos

Related

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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