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χνόη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χνόη

Structure: χνο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the box of a wheel, the nave
  2. the joints

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χνόη χνόᾱ χνόαι
Genitive χνόης χνόαιν χνοῶν
Dative χνόῃ χνόαιν χνόαις
Accusative χνόην χνόᾱ χνόᾱς
Vocative χνόη χνόᾱ χνόαι

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

  • πῶσ δ’ αὖ γεφύρασ διαβαλοῦσ’ ἱππηλάται, ἢν ἆρα μὴ θραύσαντεσ ἀντύγων χνόασ; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:20)
  • ὅ τοι κατόπτησ, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, στρατοῦ πευθώ τιν’ ἡμῖν, ὦ φίλαι, νέαν φέρει, σπουδῇ διώκων πομπίμουσ χνόασ ποδῶν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode1)
  • ὁμοῦ δὲ πάντεσ ἀναμεμιγμένοι φείδοντο κέντρων οὐδέν, ὡσ ὑπερβάλοι χνόασ τισ αὐτῶν καὶ φρυάγμαθ’ ἱππικά. (Sophocles, episode 6:21)
  • ἔθραυσε δ’ ἄξονοσ μέσασ χνόασ κἀξ ἀντύγων ὤλισθεν· (Sophocles, episode 7:6)

Synonyms

  1. the box of a wheel

  2. the joints

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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