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σεληναίη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεληναίη

Structure: σεληναι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for selh/nh, Ar.; doric selanai/a Eur.

Sense

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

  • πρῶτα μὲν τοῦ μηνὸσ ἐσ δᾷδ’ οὐκ ἔλαττον ἢ δραχμήν, ὥστε καὶ λέγειν ἅπαντασ ἐξιόντασ ἑσπέρασ, μὴ πρίῃ παῖ δᾷδ’, ἐπειδὴ φῶσ σεληναίασ καλόν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, antepirrheme4)

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

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