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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

  • ἐσ γὰρ ὀλβίαν ξείνοισί με πότνια Νίκα νᾶσον Αἰγίνασ ἀπάρχει ἐλθόντα κοσμῆσαι θεόδματον πόλιν· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 12 1:2)
  • ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ Χάριτέσ τε θεαὶ καὶ πότνια Πειθὼ ὁρ́μουσ χρυσείουσ ἔθεσαν χροί̈· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 11:5)
  • τόσσοι δ’ αὖθ’ ἕτεροι ποταμοὶ καναχηδὰ ῥέοντεσ, υἱέεσ Ὠκεανοῦ, τοὺσ γείνατο πότνια Τηθύσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 36:5)
  • ἔτεκεσ καὶ σύ ποτ’, ὦ πότνια, κοῦρον φίλα ποιησαμένα λέ‐ κτρα πόσει σῷ· (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 21)
  • ὦ πότνια Χθών, μελανοπτερύγων μῆτερ ὀνείρων, ἀποπέμπομαι ἔννυχον ὄψιν, ἣν περὶ παιδὸσ ἐμοῦ τοῦ σῳζομένου κατὰ Θρῄκην ἀμφὶ Πολυξείνησ τε φίλησ θυγατρὸσ δι’ ὀνείρων εἶδον γὰρ φοβερὰν ὄψιν ἔμαθον ἐδάην. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 1:2)

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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