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πενθητήρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενθητήρ πενθητῆρος

Structure: πενθητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: penqe/w

Sense

  1. a mourner, she who mourns for

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πενθητήρ πενθητῆρε πενθητῆρες
Genitive πενθητῆρος πενθητήροιν πενθητήρων
Dative πενθητῆρι πενθητήροιν πενθητῆρσιν*
Accusative πενθητῆρα πενθητῆρε πενθητῆρας
Vocative πενθητήρ πενθητῆρε πενθητῆρες

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

  • ἥσω τοι τὰν πάνδυρτον, σὰ πάθη τε σέβων ἁλίτυπά τε βάρη, πόλεωσ γέννασ πενθητῆροσ· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • σύ γε μὴν πολλῶν πενθητήρων τεύξει· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode, anapests7)

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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