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χαμαιεύνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαμαιεύνης χαμαιεύνου

Structure: χαμαιευν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: eu)nh/

Sense

  1. lying, sleeping on the ground

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χαμαιεύνης χαμαιεύνᾱ χαμαιεῦναι
Genitive χαμαιεύνου χαμαιεύναιν χαμαιευνῶν
Dative χαμαιεύνῃ χαμαιεύναιν χαμαιεύναις
Accusative χαμαιεύνην χαμαιεύνᾱ χαμαιεύνᾱς
Vocative χαμαιεῦνα χαμαιεύνᾱ χαμαιεῦναι

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

  • Ζεῦ ἄνα Δωδωναῖε Πελασγικὲ τηλόθι ναίων Δωδώνησ μεδέων δυσχειμέρου, ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοὶ σοὶ ναίουσ’ ὑποφῆται ἀνιπτόποδεσ χαμαιεῦναι, ἠμὲν δή ποτ’ ἐμὸν ἔποσ ἔκλυεσ εὐξαμένοιο, τίμησασ μὲν ἐμέ, μέγα δ’ ἴψαο λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν, ἠδ’ ἔτι καὶ νῦν μοι τόδ’ ἐπικρήηνον ἐέλδωρ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 16:12)
  • ἅπαντεσ δ’ οἱ ὄρειοι λιτοὶ ὑδροπόται χαμαιεῦναι βαθεῖαν κατακεχυμένοι τὴν κόμην γυναικῶν δίκην· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. lying

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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