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ὠδίς?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: ōdis

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

  • μόνην δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἔφυσεν ἐκ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς ὑπ αὐτὸν ἀτεχνῶς τὸν ἐγκέφαλον συλλαβών τὸν μὲν γὰρ Διόνυσον ἡμιτελῆ, φασίν, ἐκ τῆς μητρὸς ἔτι καιομένης ἁρπάσας ἐν τῷ μηρῷ φέρων κατώρυξε κᾆτα ἐξέτεμεν τῆς ὠδῖνος ἐνστάσης. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 5:6)
  • ἐπακούσας δὲ τῆς Ὠδῖνος τῆς Τιμοθέου εἰ δ ἐργολάβον ἔφη, : (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 45 2:3)
  • ἦλθεν δ ὑπὸ σπλάγχνων ὑπ ὠδῖνός τ ἐρατᾶς Ιἄμος ἐς φάος αὐτίκα. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 14:1)
  • ματρὸς κοινᾶς ἀπέβλαστον ὠδῖνος. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 18)
  • τυχὼν δὲ ἀναβολῆς μόλις, ἐπειδὴ τὸ πρᾶγμα παρὰ τῆς γυναικὸς ἔμαθεν ὡς ἡ παῖς ἐν ἀρχαῖς ἀφηγήσατο, τόν τε βιασμὸν τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ γενόμενον ἀπέφαινε καὶ τοὺς λεχθέντας ὑπ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν διδύμων παίδων λόγους διεξῆλθεν ἠξίου τε πίστιν ποιήσασθαι ταύτην τῶν λεγομένων, εἰ τοιοῦτος ὁ τῆς ὠδῖνος ἔσται γόνος, οἱο῀ν ὁ θεὸς ὑφηγήσατο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 78 4:2)

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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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