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ἐμμονή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμμονή

Structure: ἐμμον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)mme/nw

Sense

  1. an abiding by, cleaving to

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐμμονή ἐμμονᾱ́ ἐμμοναί
Genitive ἐμμονῆς ἐμμοναῖν ἐμμονῶν
Dative ἐμμονῇ ἐμμοναῖν ἐμμοναῖς
Accusative ἐμμονήν ἐμμονᾱ́ ἐμμονᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐμμονή ἐμμονᾱ́ ἐμμοναί

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

  • ἦν μὲν οὖν μετὰ πολλῆσ ἡδονῆσ καὶ παιδιᾶσ τότε ἀκουόμενα, καὶ τοῦ πρεσβύτου προθύμωσ με διδάσκοντοσ, ἅτ’ ἐμοῦ πολλάκισ ἐπανερωτῶντοσ, ὥστε οἱο͂ν ἐγκαύματα ἀνεκπλύτου γραφῆσ ἔμμονά μοι γέγονεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 58:4)

Synonyms

  1. an abiding by

Similar forms

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

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