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ῥοδῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοδῆ

Structure: ῥοδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a rose-tree, rose-bush

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

  • "ἐν τῇ Βιθυνῶν γῇ γίνεται ἡ χαμαικέρασοσ, ἧσ ἡ μὲν ῥίζα ἐστὶν οὐ μεγάλη, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ δένδρον, ἀλλὰ τῇ ῥοδῇ ἴσον, ὁ δὲ καρπὸσ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πάντα κεράσῳ ὅμοιοσ, τοὺσ δὲ πλείονι χρησαμένουσ καθότι οἶνοσ βαρύνει τε καὶ ἀλγεῖν τὴν κεφαλὴν τίθησι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 352)
  • τὸ μέντοι δένδρον θέλει περισπᾶν, ἀμυγδαλῆ καὶ ῥοδῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 402)
  • ῥόδον καὶ ῥοδωνιὰ καὶ ῥοδῆ διαφέρει· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 46)
  • ῥόδον μὲν γὰρ τὸ ἄνθοσ, ῥοδωνιὰ δὲ ὁ τόποσ, ῥοδῆ δὲ τὸ φυτόν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 47)
  • ἔπιεν ἡ Ῥόδη κυμβίον ἀκράτου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 637)
  • Ποσειδῶν δὲ Ἀμφιτρίτην τὴν Ὠκεανοῦ γαμεῖ, καὶ αὐτῷ γίνεται Τρίτων καὶ Ῥόδη, ἣν Ἥλιοσ ἔγημε. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 4 5:2)

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

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