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εἰκασία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκασία

Structure: εἰκασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ei)ka/zw

Sense

  1. a likeness, image
  2. a comparison, a conjecture

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἰκασία εἰκασίᾱ εἰκασίαι
Genitive εἰκασίᾱς εἰκασίαιν εἰκασιῶν
Dative εἰκασίᾱͅ εἰκασίαιν εἰκασίαις
Accusative εἰκασίᾱν εἰκασίᾱ εἰκασίᾱς
Vocative εἰκασίᾱ εἰκασίᾱ εἰκασίαι

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

  • εἰσελθὼν μὲν γάρ ποτε πρὸσ Παρράσιον τὸν ζωγράφον καὶ διαλεγόμενοσ αὐτῷ, ἆρα, ἔφη, ὦ Παρράσιε, γραφική ἐστιν εἰκασία τῶν ὁρωμένων; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 10 2:2)
  • καὶ τῆσ μὲν ὕλησ τὸ μετοχῇ καὶ εἰκασίᾳ τοῦ νοητοῦ μορφωθὲν εὐθὺσ; (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 3 6:1)
  • ὦ Νύξ, ὦ φιλάγρυπνοσ ἐμοὶ πόθοσ Ἡλιοδώρασ, καὶ σκολιῶν ὄρθρων κνίσματα δακρυχαρῆ, ἆρα μένει στοργῆσ ἐμὰ λείψανα, καὶ τὸ φίλημα μνημόσυνον ψυχρᾷ θάλπετ’ ἐν εἰκασίᾳ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1661)

Synonyms

  1. a likeness

  2. a comparison

Related

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

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