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ἐκεχειρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκεχειρία

Structure: ἐκεχειρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw, xei/r

Sense

  1. a holding of hands, a cessation of hostilities, armistice, truce
  2. rest from work, vacation, holiday

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

  • "ἱερομηνία γάρ ἐστιν, ὡσ ἴστε, μηνῶν τούτων τεττάρων, καὶ ἤδη τὴν ἐκεχειρίαν περιηγγειλάμην. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 31:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἂν εἴ τι προῖκα προσαγαγεῖν σ’ ἔδει, ἀλλ’ ηὑρ͂ον ἄν σ’ ὑπέχοντα τὴν ἐκεχειρίαν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics35)
  • ἐπεὶ νέοσ γε ἔτι καὶ ὀξύθυμοσ ὢν καὶ ἀκμαῖοσ τὴν ὀργὴν πολλὰ κατὰ τῶν ἀδίκων καὶ βιαίων ἐποίεισ καὶ οὐδέποτε ἦγεσ τότε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐκεχειρίαν, ἀλλ’ ἀεὶ ἐνεργὸσ πάντωσ ὁ κεραυνὸσ ἦν καὶ ἡ αἰγὶσ ἐπεσείετο καὶ ἡ βροντὴ ἐπαταγεῖτο καὶ ἡ ἀστραπὴ συνεχὲσ ὥσπερ εἰσ ἀκροβολισμὸν προηκοντίζετο· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 3:1)
  • ὅθεν ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐκεχειρίαν ἄγουσιν, ἐν ἀφθόνοισ γενόμενοι καὶ χορηγίαν ἔχοντεσ· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 6 5:1)
  • ὥσπερ ἡ λεγομένη τῶν ξιφῶν στόμωσισ ἧσ ἐκλιπούσησ ἐκεχειρίαν ἔσχεν ἔργων πολεμικῶν ὁ χαλκόσ; (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 2 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. rest from work

Related

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

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