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χοή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοή

Structure: χο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. a drink-offering
  2. funeral

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

  • Λαμψακηνοὶ δὲ προσδοκίμων οὐσῶν τριηρῶν πολλῶν πρὸσ αὐτούσ, ὄντοσ μεδίμνου τῶν ἀλφίτων τετραδράχμου, προσέταξαν τοῖσ ἀγοραίοισ πωλεῖν ἑξάδραχμον, καὶ τοῦ ἐλαίου τὸν χοᾶ ὄντα δραχμῶν <τριῶν>, τεττάρων καὶ τριωβόλου, τοῦ τε οἴνου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὡσαύτωσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 36:1)
  • ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ταχὺ βάδιζε τὴν κίστην λαβὼν καὶ τὸν χοᾶ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode17)
  • ἔξαιρε παῖ θώρακα κἀμοὶ τὸν χοᾶ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:42)
  • τὸν γὰρ χοᾶ πρῶτοσ ἐκπέπωκα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, antistrophe3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξένεγκέ μοι ταχέωσ οἴνου χοᾶ, τὸν νοῦν ἵν’ ἄρδω καὶ λέγω τι δεξιόν. (Aristotle, Prologue 3:11)

Synonyms

  1. a drink-offering

  2. funeral

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

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