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συντροφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συντροφία

Structure: συντροφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from su/ntrofos

Sense

  1. a being reared together, common nurture
  2. a brood

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

  • ἡ συντροφία γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐπιτόνιόν ἐστι τῆσ εὐνοίασ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 5 5:1)
  • ἐφ’ ἃ τίσ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιστήσασ ὁμολογήσειεν ὅτι μέγιστα κακὰ ποιοῦσιν αἱ κακαὶ συντροφίαι τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ; (Polybius, Histories, book 28, chapter 21 2:1)
  • ἀνδρωθεὶσ δ’ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο ᾕρητο τῇ συντροφίᾳ τῇ πρὸσ τὸν Δορύλαον ὥστ’ οὐκ ἐκεῖνον μόνον εἰσ τιμὰσ ἦγε τὰσ μεγίστασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν συγγενῶν ἐπεμελεῖτο καὶ τοὺσ ἐν Κνωσσῷ μετεπέμπετο· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 14:10)

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

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