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ὕδρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕδρᾱ ὕδρας

Structure: ὑδρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(/dwr

Sense

  1. sea serpent

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὕδρᾱ ύ̔δρᾱ ύ̔δραι
Genitive ύ̔δρᾱς ύ̔δραιν ὑδρῶν
Dative ύ̔δρᾱͅ ύ̔δραιν ύ̔δραις
Accusative ύ̔δρᾱν ύ̔δρᾱ ύ̔δρᾱς
Vocative ύ̔δρᾱ ύ̔δρᾱ ύ̔δραι

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)
  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ Πλάτων καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐράνιον ὠνόμασε φυτόν, ὥσπερ ἐκ ῥίζησ ἄνω τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ὀρθούμενον ὑμεῖσ δὲ τοῦ μὲν Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ καταγελᾶτε, φάσκοντοσ τὸν ἣλιον περὶ γῆν ἀνακλάσει φωτὸσ οὐρανίου γενόμενον αὖθισ ἀνταυγεῖν πρὸσ ὄλυμπον ἀταρβήτοισι προσώποισ αὐτοὶ δὲ γηγενὲσ ζῷον ἢ φυτὸν ἕλειον ἀποφαίνετε τὸν ἥλιον, εἰσ βατράχων πατρίδα ἢ ὕδρων ἐγγράφοντεσ. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 12 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. sea serpent

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