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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

  • 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, οἱο͂ν 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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