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θεογονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεογονία

Structure: θεογονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: gene/sqai

Sense

  1. the generation or genealogy of the gods

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

  • πλησίον δὲ ἱερὸν θεῶν ἐστιν ἃσ καλοῦσιν Ἀθηναῖοι Σεμνάσ, Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ Ἐρινῦσ ἐν Θεογονίᾳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 11:1)
  • εἶναι δὲ τὴν Στύγα Ἡσίοδοσ μὲν ἐν Θεογονίᾳ πεποίηκεν ‐ Ἡσιόδου γὰρ δὴ ἔπη τὴν Θεογονίαν εἰσὶν οἳ νομίζουσι ‐ , πεποιημένα οὖν ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα Ὠκεανοῦ θυγατέρα τὴν Στύγα, γυναῖκα δὲ αὐτὴν εἶναι Πάλλαντοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 2:1)
  • Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ ἐν Θεογονίᾳ ‐ προσιέσθω δὲ ὅτῳ φίλον τὴν Θεογονίαν ‐ , ἐν δ’ οὖν τῇ ποιήσει ταύτῃ τὰσ Χάριτάσ φησιν εἶναι Διόσ τε καὶ Εὐρυνόμησ καί σφισιν ὀνόματα Εὐφροσύνην τε καὶ Ἀγλαί̈αν εἶναι καὶ Θαλίαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. the generation or genealogy of the gods

Related

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

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