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ἐθελοδουλεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐθελοδουλεία

Structure: ἐθελοδουλει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)qelo/doulos

Sense

  1. willing slavery

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐθελοδουλεία ἐθελοδουλείᾱ ἐθελοδουλεῖαι
Genitive ἐθελοδουλείᾱς ἐθελοδουλείαιν ἐθελοδουλειῶν
Dative ἐθελοδουλείᾱͅ ἐθελοδουλείαιν ἐθελοδουλείαις
Accusative ἐθελοδουλείᾱν ἐθελοδουλείᾱ ἐθελοδουλείᾱς
Vocative ἐθελοδουλείᾱ ἐθελοδουλείᾱ ἐθελοδουλεῖαι

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

  • νενόμισται γὰρ δὴ ἡμῖν, ἐάν τισ ἐθέλῃ τινὰ θεραπεύειν ἡγούμενοσ δι’ ἐκεῖνον ἀμείνων ἔσεσθαι ἢ κατὰ σοφίαν τινὰ ἢ κατὰ ἄλλο ὁτιοῦν μέροσ ἀρετῆσ, αὕτη αὖ ἡ ἐθελοδουλεία οὐκ αἰσχρὰ εἶναι οὐδὲ κολακεία. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 109:2)

Synonyms

  1. willing slavery

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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