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ὠλένη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: ōlenē

Principal Part: ὠλένη ὠλένης

Structure: ὠλεν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. elbow, lower arm
  2. mat, mattress (=Latin torus)

Declension

First 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

  • ἡγοῦνται γὰρ καὶ τὴν ὠλένην αὐταῖς στιλπνοτέραν φανεῖσθαι συναπολάμπουσαν τῷ χρυσῷ καὶ τοῦ ποδὸς τὸ μὴ εὐπερίγραφον λήσειν ὑπὸ χρυσῷ σανδάλῳ καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτὸ ἐρασμιώτερον γενήσεσθαι τῷ φαεινοτάτῳ συνορώμενον. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:3)
  • ἀετὸν εὐμεγέθη συλλαβών, ἔτι δὲ γῦπα τῶν καρτερῶν, ἀποτεμὼν αὐταῖς ὠλέναις τὰ πτερὰ - μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ πᾶσαν ἐξ ἀρχῆς τὴν ἐπίνοιαν, εἴ σοι σχολή, δίειμι. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 3:6)
  • λαβοῦσα δ ὠλένης ἀριστερὰν χέρα, πλευραῖσιν ἀντιβᾶσα τοῦ δυσδαίμονος ἀπεσπάραξεν ὦμον, οὐχ ὑπὸ σθένους, ἀλλ ὁ θεὸς εὐμάρειαν ἐπεδίδου χεροῖν: (Euripides, episode, lyric 8:2)
  • ἔφερε δ ἣ μὲν ὠλένην, ἣ δ ἴχνος αὐταῖς ἀρβύλαις: (Euripides, episode, lyric 8:5)
  • εἰπὼν <δ> ἀκούσας θ αἵματος μητρὸς πέρι, Φοῖβός μ ἔσῳσε μαρτυρῶν, ἴσας δέ μοι ψήφους διηρίθμησε Παλλὰς ὠλένῃ: (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:2)
  • ἄραρεν ἥδε γ ὠλένη δυσεκλύτως. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:23)
  • καὶ τὸ σπάργανον εἶχεν ἐπ ὠλένῃ οὐδ ἀπέβαλλε. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 42:2)
  • ἐπιλέγει δὲ καὶ ὅτι Ὠλενίην δέ μιν αἶγα Διὸς καλέους ὑποφῆται δηλῶν τὸν τόπον διότι πλησίον Ὠλένη. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 7 6:13)

Synonyms

  1. elbow

  2. mat

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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