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ἐγγύη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγγύη

Structure: ἐγγυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, gu/alon

Sense

  1. a pledge put into the hand: surety, security

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

  • ταύτησ ἐστὶ τῆσ ἰδέασ ἥ τε πρὸσ Ἕρμωνα ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἐγγύησ ἀπολογία καὶ ἡ πρὸσ Εὐκλείδην ἀμφισβήτησισ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τοῦ χωρίου λύσεωσ καὶ ἡ ὑπὲρ Εὐφιλήτου πρὸσ τὸν Ἐρχιέων δῆμον ἔφεσισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 14 1:1)
  • εἶτα ἀγαγοῦσα αὐτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ φυλέτασ τοὺσ ἐμοὺσ παρενέγραψα καὶ ἀστὸν ἀπέφηνα, ὥστε τοὺσ διαμαρτόντασ τῆσ ἐγγύησ ἀποπνίγεσθαι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 27:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ὡρ́αν ᾤετο πρὸσ γάμον ἔχειν, οὐδεμιᾷ γυναικὶ συνεληλυθώσ, ἡρμόσατο Λεπίδαν, πρότερον μὲν ἐγγυηθεῖσαν Σκηπίωνι Μετέλλῳ, τότε δὲ ἀπειπαμένου τοῦ Σκηπίωνοσ καὶ τῆσ ἐγγύησ λυθείσησ σχολάζουσαν. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 7 1:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἤκουσα, τοῦτον μὲν ἀνοσιώτατον ἡγησάμην εἶναι τῷ ἐπιχειρήματι, ἐσκοπούμην δὲ ὅπωσ αὐτόσ τε ἀπολυθήσομαι τῆσ ἐγγύησ τῆσ ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν, καὶ ὁ ξένοσ μὴ ἀπολεῖ ἃ δι’ ἐμοῦ τούτῳ ἐδάνεισεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 13:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ὥσπερ ἀδικούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀδικῶν ἐμέμφετό μοι, καὶ ἠρώτα εἰ οὐχ ἱκανόν μοι εἰή αὐτῷ ἀπολυθῆναι τῆσ ἐγγύησ τῆσ πρὸσ τὴν τράπεζαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀργυρίου τοῦ Παρμένοντοσ τὴν ναῦν κατεγγυῶ καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ, καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπου φυγάδοσ ἀπεχθανοίμην αὑτῷ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 14:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pledge put into the hand

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

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