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πόα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόα

Structure: πο (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. grass, herb, lucerne
  2. the grass, a grassy place
  3. grasses, summers

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

  • ἐπιμελοῦ τῶν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ χλωρῶν καὶ κερεῖσ πόαν, καὶ σύναγε χόρτον ὀρεινόν, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:27)
  • ἐὰν ἀποπλύνῃ ἐν νίτρῳ καὶ πληθύνῃσ σεαυτῇ πόαν, κεκηλίδωσαι ἐν ταῖσ ἀδικίαισ σου ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, λέγει Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 2:21)
  • Τῆσ Λιβύησ τὰ νότια ψάμμοσ ἐστὶ βαθεῖα καὶ γῆ διακεκαυμένη, ἔρημοσ ἐπὶ πολύ, ἀκριβῶσ ἄκαρποσ, πεδινὴ ἅπασα, οὐ χλόην οὐ πόαν οὐ φυτὸν οὐχ ὕδωρ ἔχουσα, ἢ εἴ που ἄρα ἐν κοίλοισ συνεστηκὸσ ὑετοῦ ὀλίγου λείψανον, παχὺ καὶ τοῦτο καὶ δυσῶδεσ, οὐδὲ πάνυ διψῶντι ἀνθρώπῳ πότιμον. (Lucian, Dipsades 1:1)
  • "Ἡγήσανδροσ δ’ ὁ Δελφὸσ ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ φησὶν οὔτε ὕδνον γίνεσθαι οὔτε γλαυκίσκον οὔτε θύμον διὸ Ναυσικλείδην εἰρηκέναι μήτε ἐάρ μήτε φίλουσ, ὑδνόφυλλον δέ φησι Πάμφιλοσ ἐν Γλώσσαισ τὴν φυομένην τῶν ὕδνων ὕπερθε πόαν, ἀφ’ ἧσ τὸ ὕδνον γινώσκεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52125)
  • λέγει δὲ καὶ ἐντίθεσθαι αὐτὸν τῇ νεοττιᾷ πόαν τὴν λεγομένην λυγέαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 49 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. grasses

Related

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

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