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ἀπορίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπορίᾱ ἀπορίας

Structure: ἀπορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: a)/poros

Sense

  1. (of places) a difficulty in passage
  2. difficulty, impossibility
  3. embarrassment, doubt, uncertainty, anxiety
  4. need, poverty
  5. puzzle

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

  • καὶ ἐγὼ ποιήσω οὕτωσ ὑμῖν. καὶ ἐπιστήσω ἐφ̓ ὑμᾶσ τὴν ἀπορίαν, τήν τε ψώραν, καὶ τὸν ἴκτερα σφακελίζοντα τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ὑμῶν, καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑμῶν ἐκτήκουσαν, καὶ σπερεῖτε διακενῆσ τὰ σπέρματα ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔδονται οἱ ὑπεναντίοι ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 26:16)
  • πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ δεομένῳ χρημάτων ἀνδρὶ Αἰγυπτίῳ ἔλυσε τὴν ἀπορίαν ἐνέχυρον ἢ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ἢ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν καιρῷ γενόμενοσ. (Lucian, (no name) 19:4)
  • ὥσπερ ὁ Ξενοφῶν ἐκεῖνοσ ἐν Κάλπησ λιμένι ὑφ̓ ἁμάξησ βοῦν λαβὼν δἰ ἀπορίαν ἱερείων, ἀλλὰ τῶν Τραπεζουντίων αὐτῶν παρασκευασάντων ἱερεῖον οὐκ ἀγεννέσ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 2 4:1)
  • ὥστε καὶ γενομένησ ποτὲ ζητήσεωσ δύο τισὶ τῶν μωροσόφων ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, εἴτε Πυθαγόρου τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχοι διὰ τὸν χρυσοῦν μηρὸν εἴτε ἄλλην ὁμοίαν αὐτῇ, καὶ τὴν ζήτησιν ταύτην αὐτῷ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐπανενεγκόντων, ὁ βασιλεὺσ Γλύκων χρησμῷ ἔλυσεν τὴν ἀπορίαν Πυθαγόρου ψυχὴ ποτὲ μὲν φθίνει, ἄλλοτε δ’ αὔξει· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 40:2)
  • ἐξενέγκασ οὖν τὰ σκεύη τὰ παρ’ αὑτοῦ ἐπώλει, ὡσ δὴ δι’ ἀπορίαν τοῦτο ποιῶν· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 72:3)

Synonyms

  1. a difficulty in passage

  2. difficulty

  3. need

  4. puzzle

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