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εἴδωλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἴδωλον εἰδώλου

Structure: εἰδωλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. phantom
  2. shape, figure, image
  3. image of the mind: idea, fancy
  4. representation, statue, idol

Declension

Second 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

  • τότε ᾠκοδόμησε Σαλωμὼν ὑψηλὸν τῷ Χαμώσ, εἰδώλῳ Μωὰβ καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ αὐτῶν εἰδώλῳ υἱῶν Ἀμμὼν (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 11:4)
  • τί συμφέρει κάρπωσισ εἰδώλῳ̣ οὔτε γὰρ ἔδεται οὔτε μὴ ὀσφρανθῇ. οὕτωσ ὁ ἐκδιωκόμενοσ ὑπὸ Κυρίου, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 30:19)
  • ταῦτα ἰδὼν ἐπὶ πόδα ^ ἂν εὐθὺσ ἀνέστρεφον, οἰκτείρασ δηλαδὴ τοὺσ κακοδαίμονασ ἐκείνουσ ἑλκομένουσ πρὸσ αὐτῆσ οὐ τῆσ ῥινὸσ ἀλλὰ τοῦ πώγωνοσ καὶ κατὰ τὸν Ἰξίονα εἰδώλῳ ἀντὶ τῆσ Ἥρασ συνόντασ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 12:6)
  • οὐκ ἀτόπωσ τινὲσ οὐδὲ φαύλωσ συγκεῖσθαι πρὸσ τοὺσ φιλοδόξουσ ὑπονοοῦσι τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἰξίονι μῦθον, ὡσ δὴ λαβόντι τὴν νεφέλην ἀντὶ τῆσ Ἥρασ καὶ τῶν Κενταύρων οὕτωσ γενομένων, καὶ γὰρ οὗτοι τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ὥσπερ εἰδώλῳ τινὶ τῇ δόξῃ συνόντεσ, οὐδὲν εἰλικρινὲσ οὐδ’ ὡμολογημένον, ἀλλὰ νόθα καὶ μικτὰ πολλὰ πράττουσιν, ἄλλασ ἄλλασ φορὰσ φερόμενοι, ζήλοισ καὶ πάθεσιν ἐπακολουθοῦντεσ, ὅπερ οἱ Σοφοκλέουσ βοτῆρεσ ἐπὶ τῶν ποιμνίων λέγουσιν τούτοισ γὰρ ὄντεσ δεσπόται δουλεύομεν, καὶ τῶνδ’ ἀνάγκη καὶ σιωπώντων κλύειν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 1 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. phantom

  2. shape

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