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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 εἶπον πρὸσ αὐτόν. τάδε λέγει Ἐζεκίασ. ἡμέρα θλίψεωσ καὶ ἐλεγμοῦ καὶ παροργισμοῦ ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη. ὅτι ἦλθον υἱοὶ ἕωσ ὠδίνων, καὶ ἰσχὺσ οὐκ ἔστι τῇ τικτούσῃ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 19:3)
  • Ἐφραὶμ ὡσ ὄρνεον ἐξεπετάσθη, αἱ δόξαι αὐτῶν ἐκ τόκων καὶ ὠδίνων καὶ συλλήψεων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:11)
  • πρὶν ἢ τὴν ὠδίνουσαν τεκεῖν, πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὸν πόνον τῶν ὠδίνων, ἐξέφυγε καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρσεν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 66:7)
  • ἐπὶ σὲ τὸν κατοικοῦντα τὴν γῆν, ἥκει ὁ καιρόσ, ἤγγικεν ἡ ἡμέρα, οὐ μετὰ θορύβων οὐδὲ μετὰ ὠδίνων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 7:4)
  • ὦ πικροτέρων μὲν νῦν μήτηρ πόνων πειρασθεῖσα ἤπερ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ ὠδίνων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:16)
  • τοῦτ’ ἐστίν, ὦ παῖ Διονυσίου καὶ Δωρίδοσ, τὸ ἐρώτημα ὃ πάντων αἴτιόν ἐστιν κακῶν, μᾶλλον δὲ ἡ περὶ τούτου ὠδὶσ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ ἐγγιγνομένη, ἣν εἰ μή τισ ἐξαιρεθήσεται, τῆσ ἀληθείασ ὄντωσ οὐ μή ποτε τύχῃ. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 21:2)
  • πάρεστι δ’ ὠδὶσ καὶ φρενῶν καταφθορά. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 10:3)
  • γὰρ ἁγνᾶσ λίγειά μιν κάμ’ ἶφι ματρὸσ ὠδίσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 27 1:2)
  • ἧσ ἀίδην μέλλοντα προέφθασεν εὔστοχοσ ὠδίσ, πέμφθη δ’ εἰσ ἀγέλην τεκνογονεῖν ἄφετοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 222)
  • ἀμνὴν λύκοσ, ἔκτανε δ’ ὠδὶσ τὴν δάμαλιν πενίησ δ’ ὤλετο βουκόλιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1504)

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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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