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ὤεον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration: ōeon

Principal Part: ὤεον ὤεου

Structure: ὠε (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for ᾠόν

Sense

  1. an egg

Declension

Second 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

  • τούς τε λευκίππους κόρους τέκνα Μολιόνας κτάνον, ἅλικας, ἰσοκεφάλους, ἑνιγυίους, ἀμφοτέρους γεγαῶτας ἐν ὠέῳ ἀργυρέῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:1)
  • Σιμωνίδης ἐν δευτέρῳ ἰάμβων οἱό῀ν τε χηνὸς ὠεόν Μαιανδρίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5010)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ νῦν με, Κύπρι, Σεληναίης ἄνθεμα πρῶτον ἔχεις, ναυτίλον ὃς πελάγεσσιν ἐπέπλεον, εἰ μὲν ἀῆται, τείνας οἰκείων λαῖφος ἀπὸ προτόνων, εἰ δὲ Γαληναίη, λιπαρὴ θεός, οὖλος ἐρέσσων ποσσί νιν, ὥστ ἔργῳ τοὔνομα συμφέρεται, ἔστ ἔπεσον παρὰ θῖνας Ιοὐλίδας, ὄφρα γένωμαι σοὶ τὸ περίσκεπτον παίγνιον, Ἀρσινόη, μηδέ μοι ἐν θαλάμῃσιν ἔθ, ὡς πάρος εἰμὶ γὰρ ἄπνους, τίκτηται νοτερῆς ὠεόν ἁλκυόνης. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1062)
  • οἱό῀ν τε χηνὸς ὠεόν Μαιανδρίου π. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 106)

Synonyms

  1. an egg

Similar forms

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

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