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ἐνέργεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνέργεια ἐνεργείας

Structure: ἐνεργει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from e)nergh/s

Sense

  1. activity, operation, vigour
  2. workmanship
  3. supernatural action, cosmic force
  4. the active principle in Aristotelian ontology (Latin actus)

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

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν διὰ τὴν θείαν ἐνέργειαν ἄφωνοσ καὶ πάσησ ἐστερημένοσ ἐλπίδοσ καὶ σωτηρίασ ἔρριπτο, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:29)
  • αὐτὸσ γάρ μοι ἔδωκε τῶν ὄντων γνῶσιν ἀψευδῆ εἰδέναι σύστασιν κόσμου καὶ ἐνέργειαν στοιχείων, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:17)
  • εἰ δὲ δύναμιν καὶ ἐνέργειαν ἐκπλαγέντεσ νοησάτωσαν ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν πόσῳ ὁ κατασκευάσασ αὐτὰ δυνατώτερόσ ἐστιν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ διανοίασ ἐπίδειξιν τὰ γιγνόμενα ἔχει καὶ σωματικῆσ ἀσκήσεωσ ἐνέργειαν, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον ἡ σοφία τῶν δρωμένων καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἔξω λόγου. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 69:3)
  • "ἕπεται μὲν γὰρ ἀμέλει καὶ ταῦτα τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ἔδει δέ, ὡσ ἐκεῖνοι διδάσκουσι, δηλοῦν τὸ γιγνόμενον γλυκαίνεσθαι γὰρ λέγουσι καὶ πικραίνεσθαι καὶ ψύχεσθαι καὶ θερμαίνεσθαι καὶ φωτίζεσθαι καὶ σκοτίζεσθαι, τῶν παθῶν τούτων ἑκάστου τὴν ἐνέργειαν οἰκείαν ἐν αὑτῷ καὶ ἀπερίσπαστον ἔχοντοσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2410)

Synonyms

  1. workmanship

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