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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

  • ὃσ πρῶτον μὲν ἀρετὴν γυναικῶν διερχόμενοσ ἐνέβαλλὲ τινα φιλοτιμίαν εἰσ καλοκἀγαθίαν, εἶτα διατριβὴν παρέχων ἡδεῖαν ἀπεπλάνα τὴν διάνοιαν φαύλων ἐπινοιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 24 1:2)

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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