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ἐπιθύμημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιθύμημα ἐπιθύμηματος

Structure: ἐπιθυμηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)piqume/w

Sense

  1. an object of desire

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιθύμημα ἐπιθυμήματε ἐπιθυμήματα
Genitive ἐπιθυμήματος ἐπιθυμημάτοιν ἐπιθυμημάτων
Dative ἐπιθυμήματι ἐπιθυμημάτοιν ἐπιθυμήμασιν*
Accusative ἐπιθύμημα ἐπιθυμήματε ἐπιθυμήματα
Vocative ἐπιθύμημα ἐπιθυμήματε ἐπιθυμήματα

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

  • πάντα τὸν οἶκον αὐτῆσ ἐμπλήσει ἐπιθυμημάτων καὶ τὰ ἀποδοχεῖα ἀπὸ τῶν γεννημάτων αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 1:18)
  • χαίρουσι γὰρ τούτοισ οἱ ἀκόλαστοι, ὅτι διὰ τούτων ἀνάμνησισ γίνεται αὐτοῖσ τῶν ἐπιθυμημάτων. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 140:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἰδιώτησ οἰκίασ ἢ ἀγροῦ ἢ οἰκέτου ἐπιθυμεῖ, ὁ δὲ τύραννοσ ἢ πόλεων ἢ χώρασ πολλῆσ ἢ λιμένων ἢ ἀκροπόλεων ἰσχυρῶν, ἅ ἐστι πολὺ χαλεπώτερα καὶ ἐπικινδυνότερα κατεργάσασθαι τῶν ἰδιωτικῶν ἐπιθυμημάτων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. an object of desire

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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