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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

  • εἴ γε μὴν ὁ θάνατοσ τελεία τίσ ἐστι φθορὰ καὶ διάλυσισ τοῦ τε σώματοσ καὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ τὸ τρίτον γὰρ ἦν τοῦτο τῆσ Σωκρατικῆσ εἰκασίασ, οὐδ’ οὕτω κακόν ἐστιν· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 151)
  • "ὁἱ γὰρ ἀγνοοῦσιν, ἢ μὴ λέγοντεσ ἄχθονται καθάπερ αἰτηθέντεσ ὃ δοῦναι μὴ δύνανται, ἢ λέγοντεσ ἀπὸ δόξησ καὶ εἰκασίασ οὐ βεβαίου διαταράσσονται καὶ κινδυνεύουσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 6:4)

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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