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ἐκτένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκτένεια

Structure: ἐκτενει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)ktenh/s

Sense

  1. intensity, zeal, earnestness

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

  • οἱ δὲ μάγειροι σημαίνουσι τοὺσ ἀεί τι κομίζοντασ εἰσ μέσον, ἵνα πάντεσ εἰδῶσι τὴν τῆσ θήρασ φιλοπονίαν καὶ τὴν εἰσ αὐτοὺσ ἐκτένειαν Δημήτριοσ δ’ ὁ Σκήψιοσ ἐν τῷ α τοῦ Τρωικοῦ διακόσμου τὴν τῶν Καρνείων φησὶν ἑορτὴν παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίοισ μίμημα εἶναι στρατιωτικῆσ ἀγωγῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 19 4:2)
  • πρὸσ ὃν ὁ Μάγνοσ φιλοτράπεζοσ ὢν καὶ τὸν γραμματικὸν τοῦτον ὑπερεπαινῶν διὰ τὴν ἐκτένειαν ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 80 1:1)
  • οὗτοι πᾶσαν αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖσ ἐκείνου τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἐκτένειαν παρέσχον, ὡσ μήτε κλίνασ ἐπιλιπεῖν ἐστρωμένασ μήτε ἄρτουσ καὶ οἶνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ θυμάτων ἀφθονίαν χορηγῆσαι καὶ τῶν εἰσ ἀνάπαυσιν ἤδη κεκοπωμένοισ καὶ τροφὴν χρησίμων εὐπορίαν διαρκῆ παρασχεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 281:1)

Synonyms

  1. intensity

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

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