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ποινή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποινή ποινῆς

Structure: ποιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. blood money, wergeld
  2. fine, ransom, penalty, penance, satisfaction
  3. compensation
  4. redemption, release

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

  • ἄλλαισ δ’ ἄλλα προσέβα χρυσέασ ἀρνὸσ μελάθροισ ὀδύνα, φόνοσ ἐπὶ φόνῳ, ἄχεα ἄχεσιν ἔνθεν τῶν πρόσθεν δμαθέντων Τανταλιδᾶν ἐκβαίνει ποινά γ’ εἰσ οἴκουσ, σπεύδει δ’ ἀσπούδαστ’ ἐπὶ σοὶ δαίμων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 2:7)
  • βασιλέ’ ἄμφανεν Κυράνᾳ, δυσθρόου φωνᾶσ ἀνακρινόμενον ποινὰ τίσ ἔσται πρὸσ θεῶν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 19:1)
  • ποινὰ γὰρ ἐπέσται. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 33)
  • ἔμολε μὲν δίκα Πριαμίδαισ χρόνῳ, βαρύδικοσ ποινά· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἔμολε δ’ ᾧ μέλει κρυπταδίου μάχασ δολιόφρων ποινά· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. compensation

  2. redemption

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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