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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

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

  • τὸ δέ γε μὴ διδόναι ἐμμονὴ τοῦ κακοῦ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 198:4)

Synonyms

  1. an abiding by

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

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