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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

  • "τιμᾶν δὲ καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα τήνδε καὶ σέβεσθαι τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν γόνιμον, ὡσ ἀνυστόν ἐστιν αἰσθητῷ νοητοῦ καὶ φερομένῳ μένοντοσ, ἐμφάσεισ τινὰσ καὶ εἴδωλα διαλάμπουσαν ἁμωσγέπωσ τῆσ περὶ ἐκεῖνον εὐμενείασ καὶ μακαριότητοσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 213)
  • "ἐπὶ τῶν κυρτῶν κατόπτρων, ὅταν ἐμφάσεισ ποιῇ μείζονασ ἑαυτῶν πρὸσ ἓν τὸ τῆσ ὄψεωσ σημεῖον, διαβάλλεται δὲ τοῖσ διπτύχοισ κατόπτροισ, ὧν ἐπικλιθέντων πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ γωνίασ ἐντὸσ γενομένησ, ἑκάτερον τῶν ἐπιπέδων. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 17 4:4)
  • "εἰ ταὐτὰ πρὸσ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὴν σελήνην ἔπασχεν ἡ ὄψισ, ἔδει καὶ γῆσ καὶ φυτῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἄστρων ἐμφάσεισ ποιεῖν τὴν πανσέληνον, οἱάσ τὰ λοιπὰ ποιεῖται τῶν ἐσόπτρων· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 23 7:2)
  • "περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν μυστικῶν, ἐν οἷσ τὰσ μεγίστασ ἐμφάσεισ καὶ διαφάσεισ λαβεῖν ἔστι τῆσ περὶ δαιμόνων ἀληθείασ, εὔστομά μοι κείσθω καθ’ Ἡρόδοτον· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 141)
  • καθόλου δέ, ἐπεὶ δἰ ὧν οἱ φιλόσοφοι δεικνύουσι τὸ μετέχειν λόγου τὰ ζῷα, προθέσεισ εἰσὶ καὶ παρασκευαὶ καὶ μνῆμαι καὶ πάθη καὶ τέκνων ἐπιμέλειαι καὶ χάριτεσ εὖ παθόντων καὶ μνησικακίαι πρὸσ τὸ λυπῆσαν, ἔτι δ’ εὑρέσεισ τῶν ἀναγκαίων, ἐμφάσεισ ἀρετῆσ, οἱο͂ν ἀνδρείασ κοινωνίασ ἐγκρατείασ μεγαλοφροσύνησ σκοπῶμεν τὰ ἔναλα, εἰ τούτων ἐκεῖνα μὲν οὐδὲν ἤ πού τι παντελῶσ ἀμαυρὸν αἴθυγμα καὶ δυσθέατον ἐνιδεῖν μάλα μόλισ τεκμαιρομένῳ δίδωσιν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 101)

Synonyms

  1. appearance

  2. outward appearance

  3. moral

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