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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

  • ὅσα μὲν γὰρ αἱ κανηφόροι καὶ ἀρρηφόροι λεγόμεναι λειτουργοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἱερῶν, ταῦτα παρὰ Ῥωμαίοισ αἱ προσαγορευόμεναι τουτολᾶται συντελοῦσι στεφάναισ κοσμούμεναι τὰσ κεφαλάσ, οἱαίσ κοσμεῖται τὰ τῆσ Ἐφεσίασ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἀφιδρύματα παρ’ Ἕλλησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 22 3:1)
  • ἱστάναι δὲ τὰσ ποδοστράβασ διελόντα τῆσ γῆσ βάθοσ πεντεπάλαστον, περιφερὲσ δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ ἄνωθεν ἴσον ταῖσ στεφάναισ τῶν ποδοστραβῶν, εἰσ δὲ τὸ κάτω ἀμειβόμενον στενότητι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 16:1)

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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