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ἄσπασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσπασμα

Structure: ἀσπασματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)spa/zomai

Sense

  1. a greeting, embraces

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

  • ποῦ τὰσ φίλασ δῆτ’ εὐφρόνασ δείξεισ, ἄναξ, ἢ τῶν ἐν εὐνῇ φιλτάτων ἀσπασμάτων χάριν τίν’ ἕξει παῖσ ἐμή, κείνησ δ’ ἐγώ; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 5:4)
  • φίλασ μὲν ἡδονὰσ ἀσπασμάτων ἔχω, χρόνῳ δὲ καὖθισ αὐτὰ δώσομεν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:2)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἀπεθέμην ἀσπάσματα ἐσ αὖθισ, ὡσ ἥξουσ’ ἐσ Ἄργοσ αὖ πάλιν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:11)
  • ἢ, καθάπερ ὁ Σόλων ἔγραψε μήλου κυδωνίου τὴν νύμφην ἐντραγοῦσαν εἰσ τὸν θάλαμον βαδίζειν, ὅπωσ τὸ πρῶτον ἄσπασμα μὴ δυσχερὲσ γένηται μηδ’ ἀχάριστον, οὕτωσ ὁ Ῥωμαῖοσ νομοθέτησ, εἰ δή τι προσῆν ἄτοπον τῷ σώματι καὶ δυσχερέσ, ἔκρυψεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 65 1:2)
  • ἢ, καθάπερ ὁ Σόλων ἔγραψε μήλου κυδωνίου τὴν νύμφην ἐντραγοῦσαν εἰσ τὸν θάλαμον βαδίζειν, ὅπωσ τὸ πρῶτον ἄσπασμα μὴ δυσχερὲσ γένηται μηδ’ ἀχάριστον οὕτωσ ὁ Ῥωμαῖοσ νομοθέτησ, εἰ δή τι προσῆν ἄτοπον τῷ σώματι καὶ δυσχερέσ, ἔκρυψεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 65 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a greeting

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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