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ἔχιδνα
ἔχιδνα
See also: έχιδνα
Ancient Greek
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /éxiðna/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /éçiðna/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /éçiðna/
Noun
ἔχιδνα • (ékhidna) f (genitive ἐχίδνης); first declension
- snake (traditionally held as a poisonous snake, viper, but perhaps also a constrictor)
- (figuratively) a treacherous person
Inflection
First declension of ἔχιδνᾰ, ἐχίδνης
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἔχιδνᾰ | ἐχίδνᾱ | ἔχιδναι |
| Genitive | ἐχίδνης | ἐχίδναιν | ἐχιδνῶν |
| Dative | ἐχίδνῃ | ἐχίδναιν | ἐχίδναις |
| Accusative | ἔχιδνᾰν | ἐχίδνᾱ | ἐχίδνᾱς |
| Vocative | ἔχιδνᾰ | ἐχίδνᾱ | ἔχιδναι |
Descendants
References
- ἔχιδνα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔχιδνα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἔχιδνα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “G2191”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.