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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

  • ἐφοβούμην μή μοι τελευτῶν ὁ Ἀγάθων Γοργίου κεφαλὴν δεινοῦ λέγειν ἐν τῷ λόγῳ ἐπὶ τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον πέμψασ αὐτόν με λίθον τῇ ἀφωνίᾳ ποιήσειεν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 219:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ ἔκπληξισ ἔλαβε καὶ πρὸσ τὸ πάθοσ ἀφωνία, Ιοὔδασ δὲ ὁ καὶ τὸν πατέρα πείσασ ἐκπέμψαι τὸ μειράκιον καὶ τἆλλα δραστήριοσ ὢν ἀνὴρ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τἀδελφοῦ σωτηρίασ ἔκρινε παραβάλλεσθαι, καί "δεινὰ μέν, εἶπεν, ὦ στρατηγέ, τετολμήκαμεν εἰσ σὲ καὶ τιμωρίασ ἄξια καὶ τοῦ κόλασιν ὑποσχεῖν ἅπαντασ ἡμᾶσ δικαίωσ, εἰ καὶ τὸ ἀδίκημα μὴ ἄλλου τινόσ, ἀλλ’ ἑνὸσ τοῦ νεωτάτου γέγονεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 175:1)

Synonyms

  1. speechlessness

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