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ὑπήνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπήνη

Structure: ὑπην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: u(po/

Sense

  1. the hair on the under part of the face, the beard

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπήνη ὑπήνᾱ ὑπῆναι
Genitive ὑπήνης ὑπήναιν ὑπηνῶν
Dative ὑπήνῃ ὑπήναιν ὑπήναις
Accusative ὑπήνην ὑπήνᾱ ὑπήνᾱς
Vocative ὑπήνη ὑπήνᾱ ὑπῆναι

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 μὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ Σπάρτησ οἱδὶ πρέσβεισ ἕλκοντεσ ὑπήνασ χωροῦσ’, ὥσπερ χοιροκομεῖον περὶ τοῖσ μηροῖσιν ἔχοντεσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests1)
  • οἱ δ’ εὐγενεῖσ τὰσ μὲν παρειὰσ ἀπολειαίνουσι, τὰσ δ’ ὑπήνασ ἀνειμένασ ἐῶσιν, ὥστε τὰ στόματα αὐτῶν ἐπικαλύπτεσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 28 3:2)
  • καὶ ἔγωγ’ ἡδέωσ ἂν ἐροίμην τοὺσ τὰσ βαθείασ ὑπήνασ ἕλκοντασ, ἔφη τισ τῶν κωμικῶν, καὶ μέχρι τούτου τὸν Πλάτωνα σεμνύνοντασ, εἰ κατ’ ἐκείνουσ τοὺσ χρόνουσ ἦν ἡμῖν Πλάτων, καὶ αὐτῷ τὰ πράγματα ἐπετέτραπτο, εἶθ’ ἧκεν ὁ χρησμὸσ, τίνασ ἂν λόγουσ λέγειν ᾤετο δεῖν, ἢ τί πράττειν ἠξίου τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 97:3)

Synonyms

  1. the hair on the under part of the face

Similar forms

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

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