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ἐπιμέλεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιμέλεια

Structure: ἐπιμελει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)pimelh/s

Sense

  1. care, attention, cares, pains, care for, attention paid to
  2. a public charge or commission, any pursuit

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

  • τοῦ πατρὸσ ἡμῶν εἰσ θεοὺσ μεταστάντοσ, βουλόμενοι τοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ βασιλείασ ἀταράχουσ ὄντασ γενέσθαι πρὸσ τὴν τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιμέλειαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:23)
  • τίνα θεραπείαν, τίνα ἐπιμέλειαν υἱοῦ παρῆκα ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 21:4)
  • καίτοι τί ἂν ἔγωγε ἀγανακτοίην κατ’ αὐτῆσ, ὅπου μηδὲ τῶν θεῶν φείδεται, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν αὐτῶν διαβάλλει; (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 20:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν καὶ ὄφελοσ γένοιτὸ τί σοι ἐκ τοῦ συγγράμματοσ διπλοῦν τὸ μὲν εὐθυμία τισ καὶ ἐλπὶσ ἀγαθὴ καὶ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μήκιστον δύνασθαι βιῶναι, τὸ δὲ διδασκαλία τισ ἐκ παραδειγμάτων, εἰ ἐπιγνοίησ ὅτι οἱ μάλιστα ἑαυτῶν ἐπιμέλειαν ποιησάμενοι κατά τε σῶμα καὶ κατὰ ψυχήν, οὗτοι δὴ εἰσ μακρότατον γῆρασ ἦλθον σὺν ὑγιείᾳ παντελεῖ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 2:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ φιλόσοφοι καὶ πάντεσ οἱ ’περὶ παιδείαν ἔχοντεσ, ἐπιμέλειάν πωσ καὶ οὗτοι ποιούμενοι ἑαυτῶν, εἰσ μακρὸν γῆρασ ἦλθον, ἀναγράψομεν καὶ τούτων τοὺσ ’ἱστορημένουσ, καὶ πρώτουσ γε φιλοσόφουσ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. care

Related

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

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