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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

  • τὴν γὰρ αὑτοῦ γλῶτταν αἰσχραῖσ ἡδοναῖσ λυμαίνεται, ἐν κασωρείοισι λείχων τὴν ἀπόπτυστον δρόσον, καὶ μολύνων τὴν ὑπήνην καὶ κυκῶν τὰσ ἐσχάρασ, καὶ Πολυμνήστεια ποιῶν καὶ ξυνὼν Οἰωνίχῳ. (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme7)
  • σοὐσ λόγουσ ὦ μισόδημε καὶ μοναρχίασ ἐραστά, καὶ ξυνὼν Βρασίδᾳ καὶ φορῶν κράσπεδα στεμμάτων τήν θ’ ὑπήνην ἄκουρον τρέφων; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, antistrophe4)
  • ἀνεμολύνθη τὴν ὑπήνην τῷ γάρῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 75 1:2)
  • εἶθ’ οἱ μὲν ἐπιψαῦσαι λέγονται τῆσ ὑπήνησ αὐτοῦ τοῖν χεροῖν ἀτρέμα μειδιῶντεσ· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 25 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ καρτεροῦσι περιϊόντεσ αὐχμηροὶ καὶ ταπεινοί, τρίβωνάσ τε προσερραμμένουσ χρώματοσ βαπτοῦ φοροῦσι, καὶ ξυρῶνται μέροσ τῆσ ὑπήνησ, μέροσ δὲ τρέφουσι. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 30 3:3)

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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