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πότνα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πότνα πότνης

Structure: ποτν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: shorter form of po/tnia

Sense

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

  • Ὁσία πότνα θεῶν, Ὁσία δ’ ἃ κατὰ γᾶν χρυσέαν πτέρυγα φέρεισ, τάδε Πενθέωσ ἀίεισ; (Euripides, choral, strophe 11)
  • δόσ, ὧ ἄναξ, δὸσ καὶ σὺ πότνα μοι νύμφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 59 3:3)
  • ἣ δ’ ἐπέεσσιν ἀμείβετο πότνα θεάων· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:2)
  • "Πότνα θεά, μή τοί τι κακώτερον ἄλλο πέλοιτο Κύπριδοσ, εἰ δὴ σεῖο λιλαιομένησ ἀθερίζω ἢ ἔποσ ἠέ τι ἔργον, ὅ κεν χέρεσ αἵγε κάμοιεν ἠπεδαναί· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 2:17)
  • ναὶ δὴ τοῦτό γε, πότνα θεὰ Περσηί, πέλοιτο, οἴκαδε νοστήσειε φυγὼν μόρον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 8:32)

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

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