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πνοή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνοή

Structure: πνο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pne/w

Sense

  1. a blowing, blast, breeze, blasts, the blast
  2. a breathing hard
  3. breath, the breath, flame
  4. a breathing odour, a vapour, exhalation
  5. the breath

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πνοή πνοᾱ́ πνοαί
Genitive πνοῆς πνοαῖν πνοῶν
Dative πνοῇ πνοαῖν πνοαῖς
Accusative πνοήν πνοᾱ́ πνοᾱ́ς
Vocative πνοή πνοᾱ́ πνοαί

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

  • νότου δὲ κόλπ[ωσαν πνοᾷ ἱστίον, ἁρπαλέωσ τ’ ἄ‐ ελπτον ἐξίκοντο χέρσον· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 26:1)
  • πυρὸσ φοίνικι πνοᾷ καθελὼν Τροίασ ἐπόρθησε χθόνα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • ἀλίμενα δ’ ὄρεα Μάλεα χειμάτων πνοᾷ, ὅτ’ ἔσυτο πατρίδοσ ἀποπρό, βαρβάρου στολᾶσ γέρασ, οὐ γέρασ ἀλλ’ ἔριν, Δαναῶν Μενέλασ ἐπὶ ναυσὶν ἄγων, εἴδωλον ἱερὸν Ἥρασ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • ἆ ἆ σύριγγοσ ὅπωσ πνοὰ λεπτοῦ δόνακοσ, ὦ φίλα, φώνει μοι. (Euripides, choral, strophe 14)
  • θεόσ τέ οἱ τὸ νῦν τε πρόφρων τελεῖ δύνασιν, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν <ὁμοῖα>, Κρονίδαι μάκαρεσ, διδοῖτ’ ἐπ’ ἔργοισιν ἀμφί τε βουλαῖσ ἔχειν, μὴ φθινοπωρὶσ ἀνέμων χειμερία κατὰ πνοὰ δαμαλίζοι χρόνον. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 27:2)

Synonyms

  1. a breathing hard

  2. breath

  3. the breath

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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