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ἀπόλαυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόλαυσις

Structure: ἀπολαυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)polau/w

Sense

  1. enjoyment, fruition
  2. advantage got from, as a reward for

Declension

Third 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

  • αὐτοὶ δὲ οἱ μέχρι θανάτου τὸν Θεὸν ἐσχηκότεσ, παντελῆ σωτηρίασ ἀπόλαυσιν εἰληφότεσ, ἀνέζευξαν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ παντοίοισ εὐωδεστάτοισ ἄνθεσι κατεστεμμένοι μετ̓ εὐφροσύνησ καὶ βοῆσ, ἐν αἴνοισ καὶ παμμελέσιν ὕμνοισ εὐχαριστοῦντεσ τῷ Θεῷ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν αἰωνίῳ σωτῆρι τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 7:16)
  • κοινὸσ γάρ τισ ἀγὼν ἄλλοσ ἅπασι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ πολίταισ πρόκειται καὶ στέφανοσ οὐ πίτυοσ οὐδὲ κοτίνου ἢ σελίνων, ἀλλ’ ὃσ ἐν αὑτῷ συλλαβὼν ἔχει τὴν ἀνθρώπου εὐδαιμονίαν, οἱο͂ν ἐλευθερίαν λέγω αὐτοῦ τε ἑκάστου ἰδίᾳ καὶ κοινῇ τῆσ πατρίδοσ καὶ πλοῦτον καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἑορτῶν πατρίων ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ οἰκείων σωτηρίαν, καὶ συνόλωσ τὰ κάλλιστα ὧν ἄν τισ εὔξαιτο γενέσθαι οἱ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 15:3)
  • ὁ νεανίασ δὲ τῆσ μὲν τιμῆσ παρεχώρει καθ’ ἡλικίαν ἐκείνῳ καὶ μόνου ἐξίστατο τοῦ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ὀνόματοσ, τὸ δ’ ἔργον τῆσ τυραννίδοσ καὶ τὲ κεφάλαιον αὐτὸσ ἦν, καὶ τὸ μὲν πιστὸν καὶ ἀσφαλὲσ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ παρεῖχε τῇ δυναστείᾳ, τὴν δὲ ἀπόλαυσιν μόνοσ ἐκαρποῦτο τῶν ἀδικημάτων. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 5:1)
  • φόβου καὶ ὑποψίασ ὄντα πλήρη πρὸσ αὐτήν ἡδὺ δ’ αὐτῇ καὶ ποθεινὸν οὕτω τὸ φῶσ ἐστιν, ὥστε μηδ’ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τῶν φύσει τερπνῶν ἄνευ φωτὸσ ὑπὸ σκότουσ χαίρειν, ἀλλὰ τοῦτο πᾶσαν ἡδονὴν καὶ πᾶσαν διατριβὴν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν, ὥσπερ τι κοινὸν ἥδυσμα καταμιγνύμενον, ἱλαρὰν ποιεῖ καὶ φιλάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 6 9:1)
  • ὦ τέκν’, ὁ φύσασ καὶ τεκὼν ὑμᾶσ πατὴρ ἀπώλεσ’, οὐδ’ ὤνασθε τῶν ἐμῶν καλῶν, ἁγὼ παρεσκεύαζον ἐκμοχθῶν βίᾳ εὔκλειαν ὑμῖν, πατρὸσ ἀπόλαυσιν καλήν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:16)

Synonyms

  1. enjoyment

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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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