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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

  • καὶ ὡσ ἡ ὠδίνουσα ἐγγίζει τοῦ τεκεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ ὠδῖνι αὐτῆσ ἐκέκραξεν, οὕτωσ ἐγενήθημεν τῷ ἀγαπητῷ σου διὰ τὸν φόβον σου, Κύριε. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 26:17)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἥγε δόμοισ ἔνι Τυνδαρέοιο τηλυγέτουσ ὠδῖνι μιῇ τέκεν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 3:23)

Related

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

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