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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

  • ἄγε παῖ, φίλιον πρόσπτυγμα μεθεὶσ μητρὸσ μογερᾶσ, βαῖνε πατρῴων πύργων ἐπ’ ἄκρασ στεφάνασ, ὅθι σοι πνεῦμα μεθεῖναι ψῆφοσ ἐκράνθη. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests1)
  • Παρμενίδησ στεφάνασ εἶναι περιπεπλεγμένασ ἐπαλλήλουσ, τὴν μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ἀραιοῦ τὴν δ’ ἐκ τοῦ πυκνοῦ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1:1)
  • χρὴ δὲ εἶναι τὰσ ποδοστράβασ σμίλακοσ πεπλεγμένασ, μὴ περιφλοίουσ, ἵνα μὴ σήπωνται, τὰσ δὲ στεφάνασ εὐκύκλουσ ἐχούσασ, καὶ τοὺσ ἥλουσ ἐναλλὰξ σιδηροῦσ τε καὶ ξυλίνουσ ἐγκαταπεπλεγμένουσ ἐν τῷ πλοκάνῳ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 14:1)
  • καί ῥ’ αἱ μὲν καλὰσ στεφάνασ ἔχον, οἱ δὲ μαχαίρασ εἶχον χρυσείασ ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 15:2)
  • καί ῥ’ αἳ μὲν καλὰσ στεφάνασ ἔχον, οἳ δὲ μαχαίρασ εἶχον χρυσείασ ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 57:4)

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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