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χοή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: choē

Principal Part: χοή

Structure: χο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: χέω

Sense

  1. a drink-offering
  2. funeral

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χοή χοά χοαί
Genitive χοῆς χοαῖν χοῶν
Dative χοῇ χοαῖν χοαῖς
Accusative χοήν χοά χοάς
Vocative χοή χοά χοαί

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)
  • ἀλλ ἐγὼ οἶδα τὴν αἰτίαν παρ ἡμῖν μὲν γὰρ ἀσφόδελος μόνον καὶ χοαὶ καὶ πόπανα καὶ ἐναγίσματα, τὰ δ ἄλλα ζόφος καὶ ὁμίχλη καὶ σκότος, ἐν δὲ τῷ οὐρανῷ φαιδρὰ πάντα καὶ ἥ τε ἀμβροσία πολλὴ καὶ τὸ νέκταρ ἄφθονον ὥστε ἥδιον παρ ἐκείνοις βραδύνειν ἐοίκε. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 2:4)
  • Ἑλένη ς ἀδελφὴ ταῖσδε δωρεῖται χοαῖς, φόβῳ προσελθεῖν μνῆμα σόν, ταρβοῦσά τε Ἀργεῖον ὄχλον. (Euripides, episode 6:6)
  • Πόσσις δ ἐν τρίτῳ Μαγνητικῶν τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα φησὶν ἐν Μαγνησίᾳ τὴν στεφανηφόρον ἀρχὴν ἀναλαβόντα θῦσαι Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν Παναθήναια ὀνομάσαι καὶ Διονύσῳ Χοοπότῃ θυσιάσαντα καὶ τὴν Χοῶν ἑορτὴν αὐτόθι καταδεῖξαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 45 1:3)
  • Τίμαιος δέ φησιν ὡς Διονύσιος ὁ τύραννος τῇ τῶν Χοῶν ἑορτῇ τῷ πρώτῳ ἐκπιόντι χοᾶ ἆθλον ἔθηκε στέφανον χρυσοῦν: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 49 2:2)

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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