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στοναχή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στοναχή

Structure: στοναχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: stena/xw

Sense

  1. a groaning, wailing, groans, sighs

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

  • καὶ τίνεσ ἄλλαι στοναχαὶ μείζουσ ἢ γῆσ πατρίασ ὁρ́ον ἐκλείπειν; (Euripides, episode, anapests13)
  • Σχέτλι’ Ἔρωσ, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγοσ ἀνθρώποισιν, ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ’ ἔριδεσ στοναχαί τε γόοι τε, ἄλγεά τ’ ἄλλ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:19)
  • εἰσ τὴν αὐτήν εὐχαί τε στοναχαί τε φίλαι καὶ νύκτεσ ἀύπνοι, καὶ νηοῖο πέδον δάκρυσι δευόμενον, σοί, Νόννα ζαθέη, τοίην βιότοιο τελευτὴν ὤπασαν, ἐν νηῷ ψῆφον ἑλεῖν θανάτου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 391)

Synonyms

  1. a groaning

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

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