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ὕδρα?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: hydrā

Principal Part: ὕδρα ὕδρας

Structure: ὑδρ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ὕδωρ

Sense

  1. sea serpent

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ τὸ θηρίον πείθομαι τοῦτο καὶ μεγέθει διενεγκεῖν ὑδρῶν ἄλλων καὶ τὸν ἰὸν οὕτω δή τι ἔχειν ἀνίατον ὡς τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἀπὸ τῆς χολῆς αὐτοῦ τὰς ἀκίδας φαρμακεῦσαι τῶν ὀιστῶν: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 37 6:3)
  • ἢ τί φήσομεν καλὸν ὕδρᾳ μὲν ἐλθεῖν ἐς μάχην λέοντί τε Εὐρυσθέως πομπαῖσι, τῶν δ ἐμῶν τέκνων οὐκ ἐκπονήσω θάνατον· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 4:12)
  • τὶς γὰρ ἢ δράκαιν ἄμικτος ἢ Χίμαιρα πυρπνόος ἢ Χάρυβδις ἢ τρίκρανος Σκύλλα, ποντία κύων, Σφίγξ, Ὕδρα, λέαιν, ἔχιδνα, πτηνὰ θ Ἁρπυιῶν γένη, εἰς ὑπερβολὴν ἀφῖκται τοῦ καταπτύστου γένους· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 3:3)
  • πάντα τὰ σκεύη γὰρ ἕλκων ᾤχετ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας, οἱ Σινώπῃ δ αὖ συνόντες οὐχ Ὕδρᾳ σύνεισι νῦν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 4:4)
  • εἶχε δὲ ἡ ὕδρα ὑπερμέγεθες σῶμα, κεφαλὰς ἔχον ἐννέα, τὰς μὲν ὀκτὼ θνητάς, τὴν δὲ μέσην ἀθάνατον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 2:3)
  • ἐπεβοήθει δὲ καρκίνος τῇ ὕδρᾳ ὑπερμεγέθης, δάκνων τὸν πόδα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. sea serpent

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