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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

  • καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὰ τοῖσ παισὶν αὐτοῦ ποίμνιον κατὰ μόνασ. εἶπε δὲ τοῖσ παισὶν αὐτοῦ. προπορεύεσθε ἔμπροσθέν μου, καὶ διάστημα ποιεῖτε ἀνὰ μέσον ποίμνησ καὶ ποίμνησ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 32:16)
  • ὦ θύγατερ ‐ ἄρτι γάρ σε πρὸσ δόμοισ ὁρῶ ‐ ἥκω φέρων σοι τῶν ἐμῶν βοσκημάτων ποίμνησ νεογνὸν θρέμμ’ ὑποσπάσασ τόδε στεφάνουσ τε τευχέων τ’ ἐξελὼν τυρεύματα, παλαιόν τε θησαύρισμα Διονύσου τόδε ὀσμῇ κατῆρεσ, μικρόν, ἀλλ’ ἐπεσβαλεῖν ἡδὺ σκύφον τοῦδ’ ἀσθενεστέρῳ ποτῷ. (Euripides, episode 1:1)
  • ὅταν μέλλω λέγειν σοι τὴν χύτραν, χύτραν λέγω ἢ τροχοῦ ῥύμαισι τευκτὸν κοιλοσώματον κύτοσ, πλαστὸν ἐκ γαίησ, ἐν ἄλλῃ μητρὸσ ὀπτηθὲν στέγῃ, νεογενοῦσ ποίμνησ δ’ ἐν αὑτῇ πνικτὰ γαλατοθρέμμονα, τακεροχρῶτ’ εἴδη κύουσαν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 70 2:3)
  • ποίμνησ τοιαύτησ δ’ οὔτισ εὐφιλὴσ θεῶν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode8)

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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