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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

  • ἄλλοι δ’ ἀνάκλασιν τῆσ ἡμετέρασ ὄψεωσ πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον, παραπλησίαν ταῖσ κατοπτρικαῖσ ἐμφάσεσιν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:1)
  • Οὐ χρὴ δὲ θαυμάζειν ἐὰν ποτὲ μὲν τῷ κυρίῳ σημαίνωμεν αὑτοὺσ ὀνόματι, ποτὲ δὲ ταῖσ κοιναῖσ ἐμφάσεσιν, οἱο͂ν οὕτωσ "ἐμοῦ δὲ ταῦτ’ εἰπόντοσ" καὶ πάλιν "ἡμῶν δὲ συγκαταθεμένων. (Polybius, Histories, book 36, chapter 12 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. appearance

  2. outward appearance

  3. moral

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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