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πότνια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πότνια πότνιης

Structure: ποτνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from same Root as po/sis, despo/ths

Sense

  1. mistress, queen, queen
  2. revered, august

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πότνια ποτνίᾱ πότνιαι
Genitive ποτνίᾱς ποτνίαιν ποτνιῶν
Dative ποτνίᾱͅ ποτνίαιν ποτνίαις
Accusative ποτνίᾱν ποτνίᾱ ποτνίᾱς
Vocative ποτνίᾱ ποτνίᾱ πότνιαι

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

  • <ποτνίασ δ’ ἐμᾶσ,> ἔνθεν οἰκτρὸν ἀνεβόασεν, ὅμαδον ἔκλυον, ἄλυρον ἔλεγον, ὅτι ποτ’ ἔλακεν αἰάγμα σι στένουσα, Νύμφα τισ οἱᾶ Ναὶ̈σ ὄρεσι φυγάδα νόμον ἱεῖσα γοερόν, ὑπὸ δὲ πέτρινα γύαλα κλαγγαῖσι Πανὸσ ἀναβοᾷ γάμουσ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • οἱ δ’ αὖ Θηβαῖοι δείσαντεσ περὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὅτι ἐρήμη ἦν, ἀπολιπόντεσ ἔνθα παρατεταγμένοι ἦσαν δρόμῳ ἔθεον εἰσ τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἐπὶ Ποτνιὰσ ὁδόν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 60:1)
  • τὰ δὲ ἀγάλματα ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ παρὰ τὰσ Ποτνιὰσ τὰσ θεὰσ ὀνομάζουσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 2:2)
  • τὸ δ’ οὕτω ῥηθέν "οἵ θ’ ὑπὸ Θήβασ εἶχον" οἱ μὲν δέχονται πολείδιόν τι Ὑποθήβασ καλούμενον, οἱ δὲ τὰσ Ποτνίασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 51:1)

Synonyms

  1. mistress

  2. revered

Related

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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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