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στεφάνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεφάνη

Structure: στεφαν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ste/fw

Sense

  1. anything that encircles
  2. the brim
  3. a diadem, coronal, coronal
  4. the brim or edge, the brow of a hill, edge of a cliff

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

  • ἐπόμπευσαν δὲ καὶ στεφάναι χρυσοῖ πάνυ πολλαί, ἃσ ἔφερον παιδίσκαι πολυτελῶσ κεκοσμημέναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:16)
  • ποῦ στεφάναι πύργων, ποῦ τὰ πάλαι κτέανα, ποῦ νηοὶ μακάρων, ποῦ δώματα, ποῦ δὲ δάμαρτεσ Σισύφιαι, λαῶν θ’ αἱ ποτε μυριάδεσ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1511)
  • καὶ τὰ περικείμενα ἔργα καὶ τὸ ἔδαφοσ ποάζον δι’ ἔτουσ καὶ τῶν λόφων στεφάναι τῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ποταμοῦ μέχρι τοῦ ῥείθρου σκηνογραφικὴν ὄψιν ἐπιδεικνύμεναι δυσαπάλλακτον παρέχουσι τὴν θέαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 16:11)

Synonyms

  1. the brim or edge

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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