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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

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

  • κατὰ μὲν γνώμην, ὅταν τισ μὴ χωρίζῃ τὰ νοήματα ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων μηδὲ διιστᾷ, ἀλλὰ συνάπτῃ αὐτὰ ἀλλήλοισ, καὶ ὅταν τισ μικταῖσ ἐπινοίαισ καὶ παντοδαπαῖσ χρῆται οἱο͂ν ἔξωθεν ἐπαγόμενοσ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπολειπομένων ἐπιλαμβάνων, καὶ ὅταν τισ μὴ ψιλὰ τὰ πράγματα ἐκτίθηται, ἀλλὰ μετὰ τῶν παρακολουθούντων αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῆσ τῶν πραγμάτων φύσεωσ, οἱο͂ν ἢ τρόπον λέγων ἢ χρόνον ἢ αἰτίαν ἢ τόπον, καὶ ὅταν τισ τροπαῖσ χρῆται, ἐπιμέλεια γίνεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:2)
  • κατὰ μὲν γνώμην οὕτωσ, ὅταν τισ ταῖσ ἔξωθεν ἐπινοίαισ χρῆται, οἱο͂ν ἐξ ἱστοριῶν καὶ παροιμιῶν καὶ μύθων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:2)
  • κατὰ μὲν γνώμην οὕτωσ, ὅταν τισ μὴ ἐνδιδῷ ταῖσ ἔξωθεν ἐπινοίαισ, καὶ ὅταν δὲ συναναγκασθεὶσ χρῆσθαί τινι ἐπινοίᾳ, μὴ ἁπλῶσ εἰσάγῃ αὐτήν, ἀλλ’ ἐπισημαίνηται ὅτι συνηναγκάσθη, καὶ θεραπεύῃ, καὶ ὅταν τισ μὴ ἀπεσχισμένα νοήματα τῶν ὑποκειμένων τιθῇ ἁπλῶσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα σύνεγγυσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:2)
  • οὐ τὸ σῶμα δήπου πλάττοντεσ ἡμῶν, οὐδὲ τὰσ χεῖρασ, ὡσ δεῖ, μετατιθέντεσ αὐτοὶ καὶ τοὺσ πόδασ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ψυχῆσ τὸ πρακτικὸν καὶ προαιρετικὸν ἀρχαῖσ τισι καὶ φαντασίαισ καὶ ἐπινοίαισ ἐγείροντεσ ἢ τοὐναντίον ἀποστρέφοντεσ καὶ ἱστάντεσ. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 32 7:2)
  • πάντωσ γὰρ ἂν εἶπεν ἤτοι τὴν φύσιν ἢ τὸ σπέρμα, ταὐτὸν μὲν λέγων καθ’ ἑκάτερον, διαφόροισ δ’ ἐπινοίαισ ἑρμηνεύων· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 319)

Synonyms

  1. a thinking on or of

  2. power of thought

  3. a purpose

Related

Similar forms

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

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