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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

  • τρέφονται δὲ ἄρα ταῖσ παρ’ ἡμῖν χοαῖσ καὶ τοῖσ καθαγιζομένοισ ἐπὶ τῶν τάφων· (Lucian, (no name) 9:1)
  • Ἑλένη σ’ ἀδελφὴ ταῖσδε δωρεῖται χοαῖσ, φόβῳ προσελθεῖν μνῆμα σόν, ταρβοῦσά τε Ἀργεῖον ὄχλον. (Euripides, episode 6:6)
  • μάλα τοι κακὸν ἀνδράσιν ὕβρισ οὐ παυομένου δὲ τοῦ φάσματοσ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, πλεύσασ ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχοπομπεῖον, εἰσ Ἡράκλειαν ἱλασμοῖσ τισι καὶ χοαῖσ ἀνεκαλεῖτο τὴν ψυχὴν τῆσ κόρησ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 10 14:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τάχιστα διέβη τὰ ὁρ́ια, ἐκεῖ αὖ καὶ Γῆν ἱλάσκετο χοαῖσ καὶ θεοὺσ θυσίαισ καὶ ἡρ́ωασ Ἀσσυρίασ οἰκήτορασ ηὐμενίζετο. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 27:2)
  • λαβέτωσαν ἀθρόον τοῦτο, καὶ μηκέτι ταῖσ ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν σπλάγχνων χοαῖσ ἐπειρωνευέσθω τὸ δαιμόνιον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 120:4)

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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