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δείνωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δείνωσις

Structure: δεινωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: deino/w

Sense

  1. exaggeration

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

  • ἢν δέ τισ ἢ φροίμιον εἴπῃ πρὸ τοῦ λόγου, ὡσ εὐνουστέρουσ ἀπεργάσαιτο αὐτούσ, ἢ οἶκτον ἢ δείνωσιν ἔξωθεν ἐπάγῃ ^ τῷ πράγματι ‐ οἱᾶ πολλὰ ῥητόρων παῖδεσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ μηχανῶνται ‐ παρελθὼν ὁ κῆρυξ κατεσιώπησεν εὐθύσ, οὐκ ἐῶν ληρεῖν πρὸσ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ περιπέττειν τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, ὡσ γυμνὰ τὰ γεγενημένα οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται βλέποιεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 19:4)
  • ἔπειτα ὁ λόγοσ τοῦ μὲν Γαϊού φοβερὸσ καὶ περιπαθὴσ εἰσ δείνωσιν, ἡδίων δὲ ὁ τοῦ Τιβερίου καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπαγωγὸσ οἴκτου· (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Λίβιοσ ἐν λόγῳ Κάτωνοσ αὐτοῦ γεγράφθαι φησίν, ὡσ Γαλάτην αὐτόμολον ἐλθόντα μετὰ παίδων καὶ γυναικὸσ ἐπὶ τὰσ θύρασ δεξάμενοσ εἰσ τὸ συμπόσιον ὁ Λεύκιοσ ἀπέκτεινεν ἰδίᾳ χειρί τῷ ἐρωμένῳ χαριζόμενοσ, τοῦτο μὲν οὖν εἰκὸσ εἰσ δείνωσιν εἰρῆσθαι τῆσ κατηγορίασ ὑπὸ τοῦ Κάτωνοσ· (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 18 4:3)
  • ἔτι πεπραγμένα δεῖ λέγειν ὅσα μὴ πραττόμενα ἢ οἶκτον ἢ δείνωσιν φέρει· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 7:1)

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

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