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σφαγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγή

Structure: σφαγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. slaughter, butchery, the gaping wound
  2. the throat

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφαγή σφαγᾱ́ σφαγαί
Genitive σφαγῆς σφαγαῖν σφαγῶν
Dative σφαγῇ σφαγαῖν σφαγαῖς
Accusative σφαγήν σφαγᾱ́ σφαγᾱ́ς
Vocative σφαγή σφαγᾱ́ σφαγαί

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

  • θερμὸσ δὲ κρουνὸσ δεσπότου πάρα σφαγαῖσ βάλλει με δυσθνῄσκοντοσ αἵματοσ νέου. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:7)
  • ὦ πάτερ, σὺ δ’ ἐν Αἴ̈δα κεῖσαι, σᾶσ ἀλόχου σφαγαῖσ Αἰγίσθου τ’, Ἀγάμεμνον. (Euripides, choral, strophe 16)
  • οὐχ ἥδεται δήπουθεν Εἰρήνη σφαγαῖσ, οὐδ’ αἱματοῦται βωμόσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics6)
  • εἰ γοῦν μὴ ὁ Θησεὺσ ἐκ Τροιζῆνοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἰὼν ὁδοῦ πάρεργον ἐξέκοψε τοὺσ κακούργουσ, ὅσον ἐπὶ σοὶ καὶ τῇ σῇ προνοίᾳ οὐδὲν ἂν ἐκώλυεν ζῆν ἐντρυφῶντασ ταῖσ τῶν ὁδῷ βαδιζόντων σφαγαῖσ τὸν Σκείρωνα καὶ Πιτυοκάμπτην καὶ Κερκυόνα καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 21:2)
  • σφαγαῖσ ἀδελφῆσ οὕνεκ’ ἐκπνεῦσαι βίον. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:37)

Synonyms

  1. the throat

Similar forms

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

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