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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

  • ἀπαύγασμα γάρ ἐστι φωτὸσ ἀϊδίου καὶ ἔσοπτρον ἀκηλίδωτον τῆσ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐνεργείασ καὶ εἰκὼν τῆσ ἀγαθότητοσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:26)
  • μοῖραν καὶ εἰσ τὴν πλανᾶσθαι νομιζομένην, καὶ τρίτην τὴν ὑπουράνιον τὴν περὶ γῆν ὑπάρχουσαν ὧν μὲν ἀνωτάτω Κλωθὼ προσαγορεύεται, ἡ δὲ μετ’ αὐτὴν Ἄτροποσ, ἡ κατωτάτω δ’ αὖ Λάχεσισ, δεχομένη μὲν τὰσ οὐρανίασ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐνεργείασ, συμπλέκουσα δὲ καὶ διαδιδοῦσα ταύτασ εἰσ τὰ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ τεταγμένα τὰ ἐπίγεια. (Plutarch, De fato, section 2 1:1)
  • τὸ δὲ μεταξὺ τῶν ὀνομάτων ψύγμα καὶ ἡ τῶν τραχυνόντων γραμμάτων παράθεσισ τὰ διαλείμματα τῆσ ἐνεργείασ καὶ τὰσ ἐποχὰσ καὶ τὸ τοῦ μόχθου μέγεθοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2033)
  • ὅπου δ’ ἂν προσίῃ, εὖ εἰδέναι χρή, ὅτι ἢ ἐνεργείασ ἕνεκα, ἢ ὥστε ἦθοσ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ γενέσθαι, ἐπικατενεχθήσεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 6:15)
  • καὶ γὰρ καὶ βοῶν καὶ ἵππων τὰ πηδήματα καὶ τοὺσ ἀφηνιασμοὺσ οὐ τὰσ κινήσεισ οὐδὲ τὰσ ἐνεργείασ ἀφαιροῦσι· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 12 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. workmanship

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