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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)
  • 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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