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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

  • οὕτω δὲ παραγαγὼν ἄχρι τοῦ τόκου τὴν ἄνθρωπον, ὡσ ᾔσθετο τίκτουσαν, εἰσέπεμψε παρέδρουσ ταῖσ ὠδῖσιν αὐτῆσ καὶ φύλακασ, οἷσ ἦν προστεταγμένον, ἐὰν μὲν θῆλυ τεχθῇ, παραδοῦναι ταῖσ γυναιξίν, ἐὰν δὲ ἄρρεν, κομίσαι πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ πράττων. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • τέκε οἷ καὶ Ζηνὶ μιγεῖσα δαί̈φρων ἐν μόναισ ὠδῖσιν Ἀλκμήνα διδύμων κρατησίμαχον σθένοσ υἱῶν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 25:1)
  • ἢ ὅτι πέντε δεῖσθαι θεῶν τοὺσ γαμοῦντασ οἰόνται, Διὸσ τελείου καὶ Ἥρασ τελείασ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Πειθοῦσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ταῖσ ὠδῖσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἐπικαλοῦνται; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 2:2)
  • ὠδῖσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἐπικαλοῦνται ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 5:3)
  • ἡ πυρὶ πάντα τεκοῦσα Φιλαίνιον, ἡ βαρυπενθὴσ μήτηρ, ἡ τέκνων τρισσὸν ἰδοῦσα τάφον, ἀλλοτρίαισ ὠδῖσιν ἐφώρμισα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2541)

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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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