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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

  • ἔνθα δ’ ἔπειθ’, ἡρ́ωσ, χριμφθεὶσ πέλασ, ὥσ σε κελεύω, βόθρον ὀρύξαι, ὅσον τε πυγούσιον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, ἀμφ’ αὐτῷ δὲ χοὴν χεῖσθαι πᾶσιν νεκύεσσιν, πρῶτα μελικρήτῳ, μετέπειτα δὲ ἡδέι οἴνῳ, τὸ τρίτον αὖθ’ ὕδατι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 66:6)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἀόρ ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενοσ παρὰ μηροῦ βόθρον ὄρυξ’ ὅσσον τε πυγούσιον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, ἀμφ’ αὐτῷ δὲ χοὴν χεόμην πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι, πρῶτα μελικρήτῳ, μετέπειτα δὲ ἡδέι οἴνῳ, τὸ τρίτον αὖθ’ ὕδατι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 3:2)
  • πορευθεὶσ δὲ παρὰ τὸν Χόην καλούμενον ποταμὸν ὀρεινήν τε ὁδὸν καὶ τραχεῖαν καὶ τοῦτον διαβὰσ χαλεπῶσ τῶν μὲν πεζῶν τὸ πλῆθοσ βάδην ἕπεσθαί οἱ ἐκέλευσεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἀναλαβὼν τοὺσ ἱππέασ ξύμπαντασ καὶ τῶν πεζῶν τῶν Μακεδόνων ἐσ ὀκτακοσίουσ ἐπιβιβάσασ τῶν ἵππων ξὺν ταῖσ ἀσπίσι ταῖσ πεζικαῖσ σπουδῇ ἦγεν, ὅτι τοὺσ ταύτῃ οἰκοῦντασ βαρβάρουσ ξυμπεφευγέναι ἔσ τε τὰ ὄρη τὰ κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἐξηγγέλλετο αὐτῷ καὶ ἐσ τὰσ πόλεισ ὅσαι ὀχυραὶ αὐτῶν ἐσ τὸ ἀπομάχεσθαι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 23 2:1)

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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