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σφηκιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφηκιά

Structure: σφηκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sfh/c

Sense

  1. a wasps' nest

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ πόνηρε τὸ γένοσ ἤν τισ ὀργίσῃ τὸ τῶν γερόντων, ἔσθ’ ὅμοιον σφηκιᾷ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:41)
  • ἔσονται , οὕτωσ οἱ φίλων ζητοῦντεσ ἑσμὸν ἔλαθον ἐχθρῶν σφηκιαῖσ περιπεσόντεσ. (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wasps' nest

Related

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

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