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Καταγέλα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Καταγέλα

Structure: Καταγελ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. Gela

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

  • καταγελῶν πολυοχλίασ πόλεωσ, μέμψιν δὲ φορολόγου οὐκ ἀκούων, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 39:7)
  • ὁ καταγελῶν πτωχοῦ παροξύνει τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ ἐπιχαίρων ἀπολλυμένῳ οὐκ ἀθῳωθήσεται. ὁ δὲ ἐπισπλαγχνιζόμενοσ ἐλεηθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 17:5)
  • μὴ καταγέλα ἄνθρωπον ὄντα ἐν πικρίᾳ ψυχῆσ αὐτοῦ, ἔστι γὰρ ὁ ταπεινῶν καὶ ἀνυψῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 7:11)
  • ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν ὁπόσα ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἐπιτεχνῶνται αὐτῷ ἄρνεια κρέα καὶ χελώνασ εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἕψοντεσ, ὥστε εἰ μὴ τὴν ῥῖνα ὀξὺσ ἦν, κἂν ἀπῆλθεν αὐτοῦ ὁ Λυδὸσ καταγελῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:10)
  • καίτοι κἂν μὴ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ εἴπῃ, ἐννοεῖσ, οἶμαι, καὶ αὐτὸσ ὡσ οὐκ ἄν ποτε ληφθεὶσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἐν πολέμῳ ἀπόρρητὸν τι ἐξείποι τῆσ Σπάρτησ αἰκιζομένων τῶν ἐχθρῶν, ἀλλὰ καταγελῶν αὐτῶν μαστιγοῖτο ἂν ἁμιλλώμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν παίοντα, ὁπότεροσ ἀπαγορεύσειεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 38:9)
  • συναντῶν βασιλεῖ καταγελᾷ καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποστραφῇ ἀπὸ σιδήρου. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 39:22)
  • ὡσ καλάμη ἐλογίσθησαν σφῦραι, καταγελᾷ δὲ σεισμοῦ πυρφόρου. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 41:21)
  • ἀλλὰ οὐ Σόλων γε ἐκεῖνοσ, ὦ Χάρων, ἐρᾶν αὐτοῦ φαίνεται, ὅσ, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, καταγελᾷ τοῦ Κροίσου καὶ τῆσ μεγαλαυχίασ τοῦ βαρβάρου, καί μοι δοκεῖν ἐρέσθαι τι βούλεται αὐτόν ἐπακούσωμεν οὖν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:13)
  • "ὃ δὲ μέγιστον καὶ πρὸσ τὸ εὐδοκιμεῖν ἀναγκαιότατον ὀλίγου δεῖν παρέλιπον, ἁπάντων καταγέλα τῶν λεγόντων. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:53)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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