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ἔγχουσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγχουσα

Structure: ἐγχους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. alkanet

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

  • καὶ ἐμὲ τοίνυν νόμιζε, εἰπεῖν ἔφη ὁ Ἰσχόμαχοσ, ὦ γύναι, μήτε ψιμυθίου μήτε ἐγχούσησ χρώματι ἥδεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ σῷ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ θεοὶ ἐποίησαν ἵπποισ μὲν ἵππουσ, βουσὶ δὲ βοῦσ ἥδιστον, προβάτοισ δὲ πρόβατα, οὕτω καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἀνθρώπου σῶμα καθαρὸν οἰόνται ἥδιστον εἶναι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 10 8:1)
  • οὐκοῦν τόδε μὲν οἶμαι παντί τῳ δῆλον καὶ πολλάκισ λεγόμενον ἴσωσ ὅτι βαφεῖσ μὲν καὶ μυρεψοὺσ σὺν κουρικῇ γυναικῶν τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν, οὐ πολύ τι διαφερούσαισ τὰ νῦν, καὶ ποικιλτικῇ πάσῃ σχεδὸν οὐκ ἐσθῆτοσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τριχῶν καὶ χρωτόσ, ἐγχούσῃ καὶ ψιμυθίῳ καὶ πᾶσι φαρμάκοισ μηχανωμένῃ ὡρ́ασ ψευδεῖσ καὶ νόθα εἴδωλα, ἔτι δὲ ἐν οἰκιῶν ὀροφαῖσ καὶ τοίχοισ καὶ ἐδάφει τὰ μὲν χρώμασι, τὰ δὲ λίθοισ, τὰ δὲ χρυσῷ, τὰ δ’ ἐλέφαντι ποικιλλόντων, τὰ δὲ αὐτῶν τοίχων γλυφαῖσ, τὸ μὲν ἄριστον μή παραδέχεσθαι καθόλου τὰσ πόλεισ, τὸ δὲ ἡμῖν ἐν τῷ παρόντι λόγῳ διορίσαι μηδένα ἂν τοιοῦτον γίγνεσθαι τῶν ἡμετέρων πενήτων, οἷσ πρὸσ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ ἡμεῖσ ἀγωνιζόμεθα ὥσπερ χορῷ τὰ νῦν, οὐχ ὑπὲρ εὐδαιμονίασ προκειμένου τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 141:1)

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

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