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ἀμβροσίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμβροσίᾱ ἀμβροσίας

Structure: ἀμβροσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. ambrosia
  2. elixir of life
  3. food, perfume, unguent of the gods
  4. immortality
  5. simulated divine ambrosia used in religious rites
  6. name of some medicines
  7. a festival of Bacchus

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

  • φλόγεσ ἀνάπαλιν εὐφθάρτων ζῴων οὐκ ἐμάραναν σάρκασ ἐμπεριπατούντων, οὐδὲ τηκτὸν κρυσταλλοειδὲσ εὔτηκτον γένοσ ἀμβροσίασ τροφῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:21)
  • εἰ γοῦν ᾔδεσαν ὁπόσα τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἕνεκα πάσχομεν, οὐκ ἂν ἡμᾶσ τοῦ νέκταροσ ἢ τῆσ ἀμβροσίασ ἐμακάριζον Ὁμήρῳ πιστεύσαντεσ ἀνδρὶ τυφλῷ καὶ γόητι, μάκαρασ ἡμᾶσ καλοῦντι καὶ τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ διηγουμένῳ, ὃσ οὐδὲ τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ καθορᾶν ἐδύνατο. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:2)
  • ἠργοῦμεν ἂν καὶ τὸ νέκταρ ἐπίνομεν καὶ τῆσ ἀμβροσίασ ἐνεφορούμεθα οὐδὲν ποιοῦντεσ. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 16:10)
  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἀμβροσίασ ἠρέμα καὶ τοῦ νέκταροσ παρεγευόμην ὁ γὰρ βέλτιστοσ Γανυμήδησ ὑπὸ φιλανθρωπίασ εἰ θεάσαιτο ἀποβλέποντά που τὸν Δία, κοτύλην ἂν ἢ καὶ δύο τοῦ νέκταροσ ἐνέχει μοι φέρων. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 27:1)
  • ὡσ σεμνὰ καὶ θαυμάσια καὶ θεῖά γε, ὦ ἑταῖρε, διελήλυθασ, ἐλελήθεισ δέ με πολλῆσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τῆσ ἀμβροσίασ καὶ τοῦ λωτοῦ κεκορεσμένοσ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 38:1)

Synonyms

  1. food

  2. immortality

  3. a festival of Bacchus

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