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ῥοδωνιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοδωνιά

Structure: ῥοδωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: r(o/don

Sense

  1. a rose-bed, garden of roses

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

  • "ῥοδωνιὰν καλῶ μὲν τὴν λοπάδα ταύτην ἐγώ ἐσκεύασται δ’ οὕτωσ, ἵνα καὶ ἥδυσμα στεφανωτικὸν μὴ μόνον ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ λαβὼν σχῇσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔνδον σεαυτοῦ καὶ πανδαισίᾳ τὸ σωμάτιον πᾶν ἑστιάσῃσ, ῥόδα τὰ εὐοσμότατα ἐν ἴγδει τρίψασ ἐπέβαλον ἐγκεφάλουσ ὀρνίθων τε καὶ χοίρων ἑφθοὺσ σφόδρα ἐξινιασθέντασ καὶ τῶν ᾠῶν τὰ χρυσᾶ, μεθ’ ἃ ἔλαιον, γάρον, πέπερι, οἶνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 70 3:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ μεθ’ ἡμέραν παιδάριον ἀστὸν εἰσπέμψαντεσ διὰ τὸ γείτονεσ εἶναι καὶ ὅμορον τὸ χωρίον, ἐκέλευον τὴν ῥοδωνιὰν βλαστάνουσαν ἐκτίλλειν, ἵνα, εἰ καταλαβὼν αὐτὸν ἐγὼ δήσαιμι ἢ κατάξαιμι ὡσ δοῦλον ὄντα, γραφήν με γράψαιντο ὕβρεωσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 18:1)

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

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