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δεῖμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεῖμα

Structure: δειματ (Stem)

Etym.: dei/dw

Sense

  1. fear, affright
  2. an object of fear, a terror, horror, fearful

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἡδέωσ ἂν ἐροίμην οὐκ ἐκεῖνον ἀλλ’ ὑμᾶσ, εἰ καὶ τοὺσ κακούργουσ βούλοισθε ἂν μαθητὰσ αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι τῆσ καρτερίασ ταύτησ καὶ καταφρονεῖν θανάτου καὶ καύσεωσ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων δειμάτων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:60)
  • εὑρὼν γὰρ τὰσ Ἐπικούρου κυρίασ δόξασ, τὸ κάλλιστον, ὡσ οἶσθα, τῶν βιβλίων καὶ κεφαλαιώδη περιέχον τῆσ τἀνδρὸσ σοφίασ τὰ δόγματα, κομίσασ εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν μέσην ἔκαυσεν ἐπὶ ξύλων συκίνων ὡσ δῆθεν αὐτὸν καταφλέγων, καὶ τὴν σποδὸν εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν ἐξέβαλεν, ἔτι καὶ χρησμὸν ἐπιφθεγξάμενοσ Πυρπολέειν κέλομαι δόξασ ἀλαοῖο γέροντοσ οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὁ κατάρατοσ ὅσων ἀγαθῶν τὸ βιβλίον ἐκεῖνο τοῖσ ἐντυχοῦσιν αἴτιον γίγνεται, καὶ ὅσην αὐτοῖσ εἰρήνην καὶ ἀταραξίαν καὶ ἐλευθερίαν ἐνεργάζεται, δειμάτων μὲν καὶ φασμάτων καὶ τεράτων ἀπαλλάττον καὶ ἐλπίδων ματαίων καὶ περιττῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, νοῦν δὲ καὶ ἀλήθειαν ἐντιθὲν καὶ καθαῖρον ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τὰσ γνώμασ, οὐχ ὑπὸ δᾳδὶ καὶ σκίλλῃ καὶ ταῖσ τοιαύταισ φλυαρίαισ, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ ὀρθῷ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 47:2)
  • καὶ μὴν δι’ ὄρθρων γ’ οὔποτ’ ἐξελίμπανον θρυλοῦσ’ ἅ γ’ εἰπεῖν ἤθελον κατ’ ὄμμα σόν, εἰ δὴ γενοίμην δειμάτων ἐλευθέρα τῶν πρόσθε. (Euripides, episode 1:4)
  • "ἐγὼ γοῦν ἡδέωσ ἂν ἐροίμην σε, τί περὶ τούτων φὴσ ὅσοι τοὺσ δαιμονῶντασ ἀπαλλάττουσι τῶν δειμάτων οὕτω σαφῶσ ἐξᾴδοντεσ τὰ φάσματα. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 13:6)
  • "ἐκ πολλοῦ ὑπὸ δειμάτων, εἰ δέ τισ οἰκήσειεν εὐθὺσ ἐκπλαγεὶσ ἔφευγεν, ἐκδιωχθεὶσ ὑπό τινοσ φοβεροῦ καὶ ταραχώδουσ; (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 25:2)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. an object of fear

Related

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

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