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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

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

  • διαβεβηκότι δὲ ἤδη τὸν Ἀσωπὸν καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ δέκα μάλιστα ἀφεστηκότι σταδίουσ Ποτνιῶν ἐστιν ἐρείπια καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἄλσοσ Δήμητροσ καὶ Κόρησ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 2:1)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ποτνιῶν ἰοῦσιν ἐσ Θήβασ ἔστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ περίβολοσ τῆσ ὁδοῦ τε οὐ μέγασ καὶ κίονεσ ἐν αὐτῷ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. mistress

  2. revered

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

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