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ποίμνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποίμνη

Structure: ποιμν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a flock, of sheep

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποίμνη ποίμνᾱ ποῖμναι
Genitive ποίμνης ποίμναιν ποιμνῶν
Dative ποίμνῃ ποίμναιν ποίμναις
Accusative ποίμνην ποίμνᾱ ποίμνᾱς
Vocative ποίμνη ποίμνᾱ ποῖμναι

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

  • τὰσ δ’ οὖν ποίμνασ διηρπάσθαι ἤδη ὑπὸ τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ διεσπάσθαι ἔτι ζῶντα τὰ θρέμματα· (Lucian, (no name) 2:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ σὺ ποίμνασ δεσπόταισ τευχεσφόροισ ἥκειν ἐοίκασ ἀγγελῶν ἵν’ οὐ πρέπει. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode3)
  • θάμβει δ’ ἐκπλαγέντεσ ἱέμεν ποίμνασ πρὸσ ἄκρασ, μή τισ Ἀργείων μόλῃ λεηλατήσων καὶ σὰ πορθήσων σταθμά, πρὶν δὴ δι’ ὤτων γῆρυν οὐχ Ἑλληνικὴν ἐδεξάμεσθα καὶ μετέστημεν φόβου. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:6)
  • βουκολίασ δ’ ἀγέλασ τε καὶ αἰπόλια πλατέ’ αἰγῶν ποίμνασ τ’ εἰροπόκων ὀίων, θυμῷ γ’ ἐθέλουσα, ἐξ ὀλίγων βριάει κἀκ πολλῶν μείονα θῆκεν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:20)
  • σὺ δ’, ὦ παῖ, μὴ ’πολακτίσῃσ λέχοσ τὸ Ζηνόσ, ἀλλ’ ἔξελθε πρὸσ Λέρνησ βαθὺν λειμῶνα, ποίμνασ βουστάσεισ τε πρὸσ πατρόσ, ὡσ ἂν τὸ Δῖον ὄμμα λωφήσῃ πόθου. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a flock

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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