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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

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν, ὥσπερ τὸν Παρθενῶνα καὶ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον, οὕτω καὶ τὸ Θησεῖον ἅπαντασ προσκυνοῦντασ; (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 1:1)
  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ ἑκατόμπεδον Παρθενῶνα Καλλικράτησ εἰργάζετο καὶ Ἰκτῖνοσ, τὸ δ’ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τελεστήριον ἤρξατο μὲν Κόροιβοσ οἰκοδομεῖν, καὶ τοὺσ ἐπ’ ἐδάφουσ κίονασ ἔθηκεν οὗτοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἐπιστυλίοισ ἐπέζευξεν· (Plutarch, , chapter 13 4:2)
  • οὐκ οἰέσθε τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ, ὅτ̓ ἐστασίαζον καὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἐπήγοντο καὶ προεδίδοσαν ἀλλήλουσ οἱ ταλαίπωροι, καὶ τὰ Προπύλαια ἔχειν καὶ τὸν Παρθενῶνα καὶ τὰσ στοὰσ καὶ τὸν Πειραιᾶ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:5)
  • φαίνονται δὲ οἱ παῖδεσ οἱ Θεμιστοκλέουσ καὶ κατελθόντεσ καὶ γραφὴν ἐσ τὸν Παρθενῶνα ἀναθέντεσ, ἐν ᾗ Θεμιστοκλῆσ ἐστι γεγραμμένοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 5:3)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὸν ναὸν ὃν Παρθενῶνα ὀνομάζουσιν, ἐσ τοῦτον ἐσιοῦσιν ὁπόσα ἐν τοῖσ καλουμένοισ ἀετοῖσ κεῖται, πάντα ἐσ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶσ ἔχει γένεσιν, τὰ δὲ ὄπισθεν ἡ Ποσειδῶνοσ πρὸσ Ἀθηνᾶν ἐστιν ἔρισ ὑπὲρ τῆσ γῆσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. the maidens' apartments

  2. the Parthenon or temple of Athena Parthenos

Related

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

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