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ἀσθένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσθένεια ἀσθενείας

Structure: ἀσθενει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: a)sqenh/s

Sense

  1. weakness
  2. sickness
  3. moral weakness, depravity

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

  • οὐκ ἀπογινώσκων τὰ κατ̓ ἐμαυτόν, ἀλλὰ ἔχων πολλὴν ἐλπίδα ἐκφεύξεσθαι τὴν ἀσθένειαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:22)
  • ἐν χειρὶ παντὸσ ἀνθρώπου κατασφραγίζει, ἵνα γνῷ πᾶσ ἄνθρωποσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀσθένειαν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 37:7)
  • διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ δίδωμι ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον ἀσθένειαν, καὶ ἀσθενήσουσιν ἐν αὐτῷ πατέρεσ καὶ υἱοὶ ἅμα, γείτων καὶ ὁ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἀπολοῦνται. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 6:21)
  • γεγονὼσ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, Δημέου πατρόσ, ὡσ καὶ ὑμῶν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι γινώσκουσι, τὸν μὲν ἄλλον χρόνον οὕτωσ ἔζων ὡσ ἐδυνάμην, οὔτε κοινῇ τὸν δῆμον ἀδικῶν οὔτ’ ἰδίᾳ λυπῶν οὐδένα τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει, πειρώμενοσ δ’ ἀεὶ τοῖσ ἰδίοισ πόνοισ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τοῦ βίου διορθοῦσθαι. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 7:2)
  • ἀρκέσουσι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ προοιμίου δύο ληφθεῖσαι μόναι, ἥ τε δηλοῦσα τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῶν ἀρχαίων τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ πραγμάτων καὶ τὰσ αἰτίασ ἀποδιδοῦσα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. weakness

  2. sickness

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