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ἔμφασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμφασις ἐμφάσεως

Structure: ἐμφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. appearance
  2. outward appearance, reflection, image
  3. setting forth, narrative, proof
  4. (rhetoric) significance, emphasis, force
  5. moral (of a story)

Declension

Third 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

  • εὐθέωσ δὲ ὁ Ἡλιόδωροσ ἐποιεῖτο τὴν πορείαν, τῇ μὲν ἐμφάσει ὡσ τὰσ κατὰ Κοίλην Συρίαν καὶ Φοινίκην πόλεισ ἐφοδεύσων, τῷ πράγματι δὲ τὴν τοῦ βασιλέωσ πρόθεσιν ἐπιτελέσων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:8)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπὶ βαρῶν ἢ μέτρων ψιλῇ τῇ ἐμφάσει ἀρκούμεθα, ἀλλὰ κανόνα τινὰ ἐφ’ ἑκάστου εὑρ́ομεν. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 15:4)

Synonyms

  1. appearance

  2. outward appearance

  3. moral

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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