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ἐπίνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίνοια

Structure: ἐπινοι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pinoe/w

Sense

  1. a thinking on or of, a thought, notion
  2. power of thought, inventiveness, invention
  3. a purpose, design
  4. after-thought, second thoughts

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίνοια ἐπινοίᾱ ἐπίνοιαι
Genitive ἐπινοίᾱς ἐπινοίαιν ἐπινοιῶν
Dative ἐπινοίᾱͅ ἐπινοίαιν ἐπινοίαις
Accusative ἐπινοίᾱν ἐπινοίᾱ ἐπινοίᾱς
Vocative ἐπινοίᾱ ἐπινοίᾱ ἐπίνοιαι

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

  • λογισμοὶ γὰρ θνητῶν δειλοί, καὶ ἐπισφαλεῖσ αἱ ἐπίνοιαι ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 9:14)
  • τίνεσ οὖν αἱ ἐπίνοιαι, ἴσωσ γὰρ ἐρήσῃ με. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 21:1)
  • "ἐπίνοιαι γὰρ ἀφροδισίων ἐγείρουσιν αἰδοῖα, καὶ θυμοὶ κυνῶν ἐν ταῖσ πρὸσ τὰ θηρία γιγνομέναισ ἁμίλλαισ ἀποσβεννύουσι τὰσ ὁράσεισ πολλάκισ καὶ τυφλοῦσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 7:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱᾶ δὴ εἰσ τὰ ἔργα σοφοῦ ἀνδρὸσ πολλαὶ ἐπίνοιαι καὶ εὐμήχανοι εἰσ τέχνασ ἤ τινασ ἄλλασ πράξεισ λέγονται, ὥσπερ αὖ Θάλεώ τε πέρι τοῦ Μιλησίου καὶ Ἀναχάρσιοσ τοῦ Σκύθου; (Plato, Republic, book 10 123:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐπίνοιαι πᾶσαι ἀπὸ τῶν αἰσθήσεων γεγόνασι κατά τε περίπτωσιν καὶ ἀναλογίαν καὶ ὁμοιότητα καὶ σύνθεσιν, συμβαλλομένου τι καὶ τοῦ λογισμοῦ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 32:7)

Synonyms

  1. a thinking on or of

  2. power of thought

  3. a purpose

Related

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

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