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See also: ἠριγένεια

Ἠρῐγένειᾰ • ‎(Ērigéneia) f ‎(genitive Ἠρῐγενείᾱς); first declension

early-born, child of morn (an epithet of Eos)
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(fully substantivised) Eos (Greek goddess of the dawn)
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(later) an epithet of the Moon
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First declension of Ἠρῐγένειᾰ, Ἠρῐγενείᾱς

«ἠρι-γένεια» in Georg Autenrieth’s Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges (1891)
ἠρῐγένεια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See also: Ἠριγένεια

ἠρῐγένειᾰ • ‎(ērigéneia) f ‎(genitive ἠρῐγενείᾱς); first declension

early-born (Homeric epithet of Eos, the Dawn)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.477, (The same line is repeated numerous times in both the Iliad and the Odyssey to announce a new day in the story.)
  ἦμος δ' ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς
  When rosy-fingered Dawn appeared early-born
1. (as a substantive, see Ἠρῐγένειᾰ) a child of the morning
the morning, morn
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(in later Epic) a day
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(echoing ἔᾰρ, “spring”, etymon of ἦρι, pseudo-adjective) one bearing in spring (a varia lectio of ἠυγένειᾰ)
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First declension of ἡ ἠρῐγένειᾰ; τῆς ἠρῐγενείᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἠρῐγένειᾰ	τὼ ἠρῐγενείᾱ	αἱ ἠρῐγένειαι
Genitive	τῆς ἠρῐγενείᾱς	τοῖν ἠρῐγενείαιν	τῶν ἠρῐγενειῶν
Dative	τῇ ἠρῐγενείᾳ	τοῖν ἠρῐγενείαιν	ταῖς ἠρῐγενείαις
Accusative	τὴν ἠρῐγένειᾰν	τὼ ἠρῐγενείᾱ	τᾱ̀ς ἠρῐγενείᾱς
Vocative	ἠρῐγένειᾰ	ἠρῐγενείᾱ	ἠρῐγένειαι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἠριγένεια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἠριγένεια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἠριγένεια in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«ἠριγένεια» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«ἠριγένεια» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
«ἠρι-γένεια» in Georg Autenrieth’s Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges (1891)