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ἀφορμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφορμή

Structure: ἀφορμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a starting-point, a base of operations, a place of safety
  2. a starting-point, the origin, occasion or pretext of, occasion
  3. the means with which one begins, resources, means for undertaking
  4. the capital

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀφορμή ἀφορμᾱ́ ἀφορμαί
Genitive ἀφορμῆς ἀφορμαῖν ἀφορμῶν
Dative ἀφορμῇ ἀφορμαῖν ἀφορμαῖς
Accusative ἀφορμήν ἀφορμᾱ́ ἀφορμᾱ́ς
Vocative ἀφορμή ἀφορμᾱ́ ἀφορμαί

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

  • "πολλαὶ δέ, οἶσθα, τοῦ ἔτουσ αἱ τοιαῦται ἀφορμαί. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 19:9)
  • ὅσῳ γὰρ ἂν ἐκκόπτωμεν, τοσῷδε πλείουσ ἡμῖν ἀναφύονται τοῦ κολάζειν ἀφορμαί. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 8:4)
  • "ἀμφιλαφεῖσ δὲ αἱ ἀφορμαὶ τῶν μέμψεων τοῖσ συκοφαντικοῖσ τὰ ὦτα. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:60)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ εἰσιν ὑμῖν ἀφορμαὶ ὑπερμεγέθεισ πρὸσ ἐπίδειξιν φιλίασ ἐν εἰρήνῃ βαθείᾳ βιοῦσιν, ὥσπερ οὐδ’ ἂν ^ ἐν γαλήνῃ μάθοισ εἰ ἀγαθὸσ ὁ κυβερνήτησ ἐστί· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 35:3)
  • ἐκ τούτου κατέλυσαν μὲν οἱ Συρακούσιοι τὸ ναυτικόν, οὐδὲν γὰρ ἦν ἔργον αὐτοῦ, μεγάλαι δὲ δαπάναι τοῖσ πλέουσι, καὶ στάσεωσ ἀφορμαὶ τοῖσ ἄρχουσι· (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 50 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a starting-point

  2. a starting-point

  3. the means with which one begins

  4. the capital

Similar forms

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

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