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ἐπαίνεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαίνεσις ἐπαίνεσεως

Structure: ἐπαινεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)paine/w

Sense

  1. praise

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

  • γενεὰ καὶ γενεὰ ἐπαινέσει τὰ ἔργα σου καὶ τὴν δύναμίν σου ἀπαγγελοῦσι. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 144:4)
  • δεῖ δὴ τοιούτου τινὸσ λόγου, ὅστισ τοὺσ μὲν τετελευτηκότασ ἱκανῶσ ἐπαινέσει, τοῖσ δὲ ζῶσιν εὐμενῶσ παραινέσει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 26 2:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ἐπίρρημα ἐπιρρήματι ἀντιπαράκειται καὶ ῥήματι ῥῆμα, τὸ μὲν ἱκανῶσ τῷ εὐμενῶσ, τῷ δ’ ἐπαινέσει τὸ παραινέσει, καὶ ταῦτα πάρισα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 26 2:3)
  • ἐπαινέσει μιν ξεῖνοσ ἐν δόμοισ ἰδών· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 51)
  • εἶτα ἂν ἐξέλθῃσ μηδὲν παθών, οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι ἀπαντῶντέσ σοι συγχαρήσονται ὅτι ἐσώθησ, ὁ δ’ εἰδὼσ βλέπειν τὰ τοιαῦτα, ἂν μὲν ἴδῃ ὅτι εὐσχημόνωσ ἀνεστράφησ ἐν τούτῳ, ἐπαινέσει καὶ συνησθήσεται· (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. praise

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

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