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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

  • "διέκειτο δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν τῆσ σκηνῆσ παραστάδων ζῷα μαρμάρινα τῶν πρώτων τεχνιτῶν ἑκατόν, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἀνὰ μέσον χώραισ πίνακεσ τῶν Σικυωνικῶν ζωγράφων, ἐναλλὰξ δ’ ἐπίλεκτοι εἰκασίαι παντοῖαι καὶ χιτῶνεσ χρυσουφεῖσ ἐφαπτίδεσ τε κάλλισται, τινὲσ μὲν εἰκόνασ ἔχουσαι τῶν βασιλέων ἐνυφασμένασ, αἱ δὲ μυθικὰσ διαθέσεισ, ὑπεράνω δὲ τούτων θυρεοὶ περιέκειντο ἐναλλάξ ἀργυροῖ τε καὶ χρυσοῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:83)

Synonyms

  1. a likeness

  2. a comparison

Related

Similar forms

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

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