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ὑψαύχην

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψαύχην ὑψαύχενος

Structure: ὑψαυχην (Stem)

Sense

  1. carrying the neck high, stately, towering

Declension

Third 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

  • ὄχθων δ’ ἔπ’, ἀμβὰσ ἐσ ἐλάτην ὑψαύχενα, ἴδοιμ’ ἂν ὀρθῶσ μαινάδων αἰσχρουργίαν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:6)
  • τερψίχορον, Τιτᾶνα, τελέστορα, τιμήεντα, ὑμναγόρην, ὕπατον, ὑψαύχενα, ὑψήεντα, Φοῖβον, φοιβάζοντα, φιλοστέφανον, φρενογηθῆ, χρησμαγόρην, χρύσεον, χρυσόχροα, χρυσοβέλεμνον, ψαλμοχαρῆ, ψάλτην, ψευσίστυγα, ψυχοδοτῆρα, ὠκύπον, ὠκυεπῆ, ὠκύσκοπον, ὡρεσιδώτην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 525 4:1)
  • εἰσ γέφυραν τοῦ Σαγγαρίου καὶ σὺ μεθ’ Ἑσπερίην ὑψαύχενα, καὶ μετὰ Μήδων ἔθνεα καὶ πᾶσαν βαρβαρικὴν ἀγέλην, Σαγγάριε, κρατερῇσι ῥοὰσ ἀψῖσι πεδηθείσ, οὕτω ἐδουλώθησ κοιρανικῇ παλάμῃ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6411)

Synonyms

  1. carrying the neck high

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

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