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ὠδίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠδίς ὠδῖνος

Structure: ὠδιν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mostly in pl.

Sense

  1. the pangs or throes of labour, travail-pains, birth, travail-pain, anguish
  2. the fruit of travail or labour, a birth, child
  3. any travail, anguish, pangs

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

  • ὤδινε καὶ ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἔγγιζε, θύγατερ Σιών, ὡσ τίκτουσα. διότι νῦν ἐξελεύσῃ ἐκ πόλεωσ καὶ κατασκηνώσεισ ἐν πεδίῳ καὶ ἥξεισ ἕωσ Βαβυλῶνοσ. ἐκεῖθεν ρύσεταί σε καὶ ἐκεῖθεν λυτρώσεταί σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου ἐκ χειρὸσ ἐχθρῶν σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 4:10)
  • τίσ ἤκουσε τοιοῦτο, καὶ τίσ ἑώρακεν οὕτωσ̣ ἦ ὤδινε γῆ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ, ἢ καὶ ἐτέχθη ἔθνοσ εἰσ ἅπαξ̣ ὅτι ὤδινε καὶ ἔτεκε Σιὼν τὰ παιδία αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 66:8)
  • Ἔντελλοσ δέ, Δάρητοσ ἐναντίον ὄμμα τιταίνων, γυιοτόρουσ μύρμηκασ ἐμαίνετο χερσὶν ἑλίσσων πυγμαχίησ δ’ ὤδινε φόνον διψῶσαν ἀπειλήν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 45:1)

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

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