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ὑδρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδρία

Structure: ὑδρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(/dwr

Sense

  1. a water-pot, pitcher, urn
  2. a vessel, a pot of money
  3. the balloting urn
  4. a cinerary urn

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 διεῖλε τοὺσ τριακοσίουσ ἄνδρασ εἰσ τρεῖσ ἀρχὰσ καὶ ἔδωκε κερατίνασ ἐν χειρὶ πάντων καὶ ὑδρίασ κενὰσ καὶ λαμπάδασ ἐν ταῖσ ὑδρίαισ (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 7:16)
  • "καὶ κερασθέντων ἐν ταῖσ ὑδρίαισ καὶ πίθοισ πάντεσ κοσμίωσ ἐγλυκάνθησαν οἱ ἐν τῷ σταδίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:144)
  • ’ τὴν γὰρ ἡμέραν ἀνηλιάζοντεσ αὐτό, τῆσ νυκτὸσ ἀπηθοῦντεσ τὸ παχύτατον τὸ λοιπὸν ἐξαιθριάζουσιν ἐν ὑδρίαισ κεραμέαισ ἐπὶ τῶν μετεωροτάτων μερῶν τῆσ οἰκήσεωσ, δι’ ὅλησ τε τῆσ νυκτὸσ δύο παῖδεσ ὕδατι τὰ τεύχη καταρραίνουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 98 2:1)
  • καὶ περὶ τῶν ὤτων οὕτωσ διορίζονται, ὅτι εἶχεν μὲν δύο ὦτα ἄνω καθότι καὶ τἄλλα ποτήρια, ἄλλα δὲ δύο κατὰ τὸ κύρτωμα μέσον ἐξ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν μεροῖν μικρά, παρόμοια ταῖσ Κορινθιακαῖσ ὑδρίαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 771)

Synonyms

  1. the balloting urn

  2. a cinerary urn

Related

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

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