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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

  • οὔριοι δ’ ὅταν πνοαὶ μόλωσι, πέμψομέν νιν Ἑλλάδα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode10)
  • ἴτ’, ὦ πνοαί, ναυσθλοῦσθε τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονοσ παῖδ’ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 12:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐπιστώθησαν ‐ εὖ δέ πωσ γέρων ὑπῆλθεν αὐτοὺσ Τυνδάρεωσ πυκνῇ φρενί ‐ δίδωσ’ ἑλέσθαι θυγατρὶ μνηστήρων ἕνα, ὅτου πνοαὶ φέροιεν Ἀφροδίτησ φίλαι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 1:8)
  • πόμπιμοι μόνον λαίφει πνοαὶ γένοιντο καὶ νεὼσ δρόμοσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 18:6)
  • οἳ δ’ ἱστὸν ᾖρον, οὔριαι δ’ ἧκον πνοαί. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:9)

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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