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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

  • καὶ μηνῶν μὲν σφίσι μέτρον ἡ σεληναίη καὶ ἡ ταύτησ ἀναστροφὴ ἐγένετο, ἔτεοσ δὲ ἠέλιοσ καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἠελίου περίφοροσ. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 5:2)
  • ἠέλιοσ δὲ καὶ Σεληναίη πάμπαν ἐναργέεσ καὶ σφέασ πάντεσ ὁρέουσι. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 34:4)
  • ἠδ’ ὡσ ἔμπεδον αἰὲν ἐν αἰθέρι τέκμαρ ἔχουσιν ἄστρα σεληναίη τε καὶ ἠελίοιο κέλευθοι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 9:29)
  • πρὸσ γάρ οἱ διχόμηνισ ἀπ’ αἰθέροσ αὐγάζουσα βάλλε σεληναίη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 21:12)
  • ἔνθεν δὲ ζητέοντεσ εὑρ͂ον τουτέων τὴν αἰτίην, ὅτι οὐκ ἴδιον τῇ σεληναίῃ τὸ φέγγοσ, ἀλλὰ οἱ παρ’ ἠελίου ἔρχεται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 3:5)

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

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