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τριγονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριγονία

Structure: τριγονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from tri/gonos

Sense

  1. the third generation

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

  • σ οὐκ ᾔδε[ι]Μίδαν αδσθέντα αλ σεἰσ τὰ ἐν ἀγορᾷ, ἀτρέ[μα] δ’ [ἔχων ἐν τρισὶ] μησὶν ἅπαντα τὰ χρέα καὶ τ[οὺσ ἐράν]ουσ ἐπυθόμην, οὗτ[οσ] δέ, ὁ ἐκ τριγονίασ [ὢν] μυροπώλησ, καθ[ήμε]νοσ δ’ ἐν τῇ ἀγο[ρᾷ] ὅσαι ἡμέραι, τρία [δὲ μυ]ροπώλια κεκτη[μένοσ], λόγουσ δὲ κατὰ μῆνα λαμβάνω[ν, οὐκ] ᾔδει τὰ χρέα. (Hyperides, Speeches, 19:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ ὀφείλοντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ πάππου πάλαι, καὶ τοῦ νόμου κελεύοντοσ κληρονομεῖν τοῦτον τῶν ἐκείνου, προσῆκον αὐτῷ μηδὲ πάλαι γράφεσθαι ἐγράφετο, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οἰήσεται δεῖν ἀποφεύγειν ὅτι πονηρὸσ ἐκ τριγονίασ ἐστίν, οὐ δίκαια ἐρεῖ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 28:1)
  • τῶν δὲ Ἑλλήνων οἱ μὲν τὴν Ἀσίαν οἰκοῦντεσ οἱ μὲν ἐκ τριγονίασ ἐδούλευον, οἱ δ’ ἐκ πλείονοσ, αἱ νῆσοι δ’ οὐδὲν ἦσαν πρᾶγμα, Ἐρετριεῖσ δ’ Εὐβοέων χεῖρασ ἀνταράμενοι τριῶν ἡμερῶν ἤγοντο πανοικησίᾳ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 54:1)
  • τιμοῦχοσ δ’ οὐ γίνεται μὴ τέκνα ἔχων μηδὲ διὰ τριγονίασ ἐκ πολιτῶν γεγονώσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 10:4)
  • τούτουσ δὲ Κύψελοσ καταλύσασ αὐτὸσ ἐτυράννησε, καὶ μέχρι τριγονίασ ὁ οἶκοσ αὐτοῦ συνέμεινε· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 33:12)

Synonyms

  1. the third generation

Related

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

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