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διατριβή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διατριβή διατριβῆς

Structure: διατριβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from diatri_/bw

Sense

  1. pastime, amusement
  2. occupation, employment, study
  3. waste of time, delay

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

  • στεγναὶ διατριβαὶ οἴκων αὐτῆσ, σῖτα δὲ ὀκνηρὰ οὐκ ἔφαγε. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 29:44)
  • Δείναρχοσ ὁ ῥήτωρ υἱὸσ μὲν ἦν Σωστράτου, Κορίνθιοσ δὲ τὸ γένοσ, ἀφικόμενοσ δὲ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ, καθ’ ὃν χρόνον ἤνθουν αἵ τε τῶν φιλοσόφων καὶ ῥητόρων διατριβαί, Θεοφράστῳ τε συνεγένετο καὶ Δημητρίῳ τῷ Φαληρεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 2 1:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁρ́α μὴ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμῖν τὰ κομψὰ λῆροσ ᾖ καὶ παιδιὰ ἄλλωσ καὶ διατριβαὶ ἀργοῦσι καὶ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἐθέλουσι τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 32:3)
  • 0ὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ ὁμοίωσ ἡδὺ, οἶμαι, μόνον ἐμπίπλασθαι, ὥσπερ τοὺσ λέοντάσ φασι καὶ τοὺσ μονιοὺσ τῶν λύκων, καὶ συνόντασ δεξιοῖσ ἀνδράσι καὶ πάντα χαρίζεσθαι πειρωμενοισ, οἳ πρῶτα μὲν οὐ κωφὸν καὶ ἄφωνον ἐάσουσι τὸ συμπόσιον εἶναι, ἀλλ̓ ἐν μύθοισ συμποτικοῖσ καὶ σκώμμασιν ἀνεπαχθέσι καὶ φιλοφροσύναισ ποικίλαισ συνέσονται, οἱαῖ ἥδισται διατριβαί, φίλαι μὲν Διονύσῳ καὶ Ἀφροδίτῃ, φίλαι δὲ Χάρισιν, ἔπειτα δὲ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἐσ τὴν ὑστεραίαν διηγούμενοι ὑμῶν τὴν δεξιότητα φιλεῖσθαι παρασκευάσουσι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 4:1)
  • ἅπασαι γὰρ αἱ πράξεισ καὶ διατριβαὶ καὶ λόγοι πάντεσ ἐπὶ τὴν πρὸσ θεὸν ἡμῖν εὐσέβειαν ἀναφέρουσιν· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 122:1)

Synonyms

  1. pastime

  2. waste of time

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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