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στεροπη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεροπη

Structure: στεροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = like a)steroph/, a)straph/

Sense

  1. a flash of lightning, flash, gleam, sheen

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

  • ὦ στεροπὰ Διόσ, ὦ σκοτία νύξ, τί ποτ’ αἴρομαι ἔννυχοσ οὕτω δείμασι, φάσμασιν; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 1:1)
  • ὃν αἰόλα νὺξ ἐναριζομένα τίκτει κατευνάζει τε, φλογιζόμενον Ἅλιον Ἅλιον αἰτῶ τοῦτο καρῦξαι, τὸν Ἀλκμήνασ πόθι μοι πόθι παῖσ ναίει ποτ’, ὦ λαμπρᾷ στεροπᾷ φλεγέθων, ἢ ποντίασ αὐλῶνοσ ἢ δισσαῖσιν ἀπείροισ κλιθείσ, εἴπ’, ὦ κρατιστεύων κατ’ ὄμμα. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. a flash of lightning

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

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