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πηγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηγή πηγῆς

Structure: πηγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. spring, well, fountain
  2. (in the plural) source of a river
  3. vein (of a mineral)
  4. source, origin, cause

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

  • πόντου σε πηγαῖσ ἁγνίσαι βουλήσομαι, ἔτ’ ἐν δόμοισι βρέτασ, ἐφ’ ᾧ πεπλεύκαμεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 5:27)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ Πηγαῖσ δόντεσ καὶ λαβόντεσ ὁρ́κουσ εὐθὺσ ἐβάδιζον ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ περὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀγῶνεσ ἦσαν, εὖ πεφραγμένου τοῦ Κλεομένουσ καὶ τῶν Κορινθίων ἀμυνομένων προθύμωσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 44 1:1)
  • ] εἰργασμένου δὲ λόγου ἐστὶ τὸ παρατιθέναι τὰ ἐκ τῶν τόπων, ποῦ καὶ τίνοσ πλησίον καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν, ὡσ καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀναβάσει ἔχει τῇ Κύρου, ἔστι δὲ καὶ μεγάλου βασιλέωσ βασίλεια ἐν Κελαιναῖσ ἔρυμνα ἐπὶ ταῖσ πηγαῖσ τοῦ Μαρσύου ποταμοῦ ὑπὸ τῇ ἀκροπόλει. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:21)
  • τὸ πνεῦμα, δηλοῦσιν οἱ ἀλεῖπται, τοὺσ ἀθλητὰσ κελεύοντεσ ἀντερείδειν ταῖσ τρίψεσι καὶ παρεγκόπτειν τείνοντασ ἀεὶ τὰ πλασσόμενα μέρη καὶ ψηλαφώμενα τοῦ σώματοσ ἡ δὲ φωνή, τοῦ πνεύματοσ οὖσα κίνησισ, οὐκ ἐπιπολαίωσ ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν πηγαῖσ; (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 16 3:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πρὸσ ὕδωρ οὔτε ποταμοῖσ ἐστιν ἀενάοισ οὔτε λίμναισ τισὶν οὔτ’ ἀφθόνοισ πηγαῖσ ἡ χώρα διαρκήσ, ἀλλ’ οἱ πλεῖστοι φρέασι ποιητοῖσ ἐχρῶντο, νόμον ἔγραψεν, ὅπου μέν ἐστι δημόσιον φρέαρ ἐντὸσ ἱππικοῦ, χρῆσθαι τούτῳ· (Plutarch, , chapter 23 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. spring

  2. source of a river

  3. vein

  4. source

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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