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ἀφωνίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφωνίᾱ ἀφωνίᾱς

Structure: ἀφωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. speechlessness
  2. mispronunciation

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

  • "οὐδεὶσ κακὸσ μέγασ ἰχθύσ," αἰνισσόμενοσ ὅτι πρῶτον μὲν οὐδείσ ἐστιν, εἶθ’ ὅτι κακόσ, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ μέγασ μέν, ἰχθὺσ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἀφωνίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 402)
  • οἱ λεπροὶ δὲ οἱ ἐκ τῆσ Σαμαρείασ ἀναχωρήσαντεσ εἰσ τὸ τῶν Σύρων στρατόπεδον, ὧν μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεμνήσθημεν, ὡσ γενόμενοι πρὸσ τῇ παρεμβολῇ πολλὴν ἡσυχίαν καὶ ἀφωνίαν ἔβλεπον οὖσαν καὶ παρελθόντεσ δὲ εἴσω καὶ ὁρμήσαντεσ εἰσ μίαν σκηνὴν οὐδένα ἑώρων, ἐμφαγόντεσ καὶ πιόντεσ ἐβάστασαν ἐσθῆτα καὶ πολὺν χρυσὸν κομίσαντεσ ἔξω τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ ἔκρυψαν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 96:1)
  • Ὑρκανὸσ μὲν οὖν ὑπ’ ἐκπλήξεωσ τοῦ γεγονότοσ εἰσ ἀφωνίαν ἐτράπη, μόλισ δ’ ἀνενεγκὼν ἐπυνθάνετο τῶν περὶ Ἡρώδην, ὅ τι ποτε εἰή τὸ γεγενημένον καὶ τίσ ὁ Μάλιχον ἀνῃρηκώσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 373:2)

Synonyms

  1. speechlessness

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