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χηρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηρεία

Structure: χηρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: xhreu/w

Sense

  1. widowhood

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

  • νῦν δὲ ἥξει ἐπὶ σὲ τὰ δύο ταῦτα ἐξαίφνησ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾶ. ἀτεκνία καὶ χηρεία ἥξει ἐξαίφνησ ἐπὶ σὲ ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου, ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ τῶν ἐπαοιδῶν σου σφόδρα, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 47:9)
  • ἡ γὰρ χηρεία λιπανδρία τίσ ἐστιν, οὐκ ἀφανισμὸσ τέλειοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 56:7)
  • ἔπειτα γαμετῆσ σώφρονοσ, ἣ διὰ τὸν σὸν πόθον ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καὶ χηρείᾳ κάθηται πᾶσαν ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα τὰσ σὰσ φυγὰσ ὀδυρομένη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 28 1:4)

Related

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

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