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εἰκασία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: eikasia

Principal Part: εἰκασία

Structure: εἰκασι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

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

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

  • "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)
  • 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

명사

형용사

동사

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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