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ἔθνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 기독교 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔθνος ἔθνεος

Structure: ἐθνο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/qw

Sense

  1. group of people: tribe, family
  2. group of animals: flock, herd
  3. country, nation
  4. (later, in the plural) foreign nations, barbarians
  5. (Jewish and Christian usage, in the plural) gentiles, heathen
  6. class, caste

Declension

Third 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

  • βούλομαι δὲ περὶ τῆσ Ἀσίησ καὶ τῆσ Εὐρώπησ δεῖξαι ὁκόσον διαφέρουσιν ἀλλήλων ἐσ τὰ πάντα καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐθνέων τῆσ μορφῆσ, ὅτι διαλλάσσει καὶ μηδὲν ἐοίκεν ἀλλήλοισιν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xii.2)
  • Καὶ ὁκόσα μὲν ὀλίγον διαφέρει τῶν ἐθνέων παραλείψω, ὁκόσα δὲ μεγάλα ἢ φύσει ἢ νόμῳ, ἐρέω περὶ αὐτῶν ὡσ ἔχει. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xiv.1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Εὐρώπῃ ἔστιν ἔθνοσ Σκυθικόν, ὃ περὶ τὴν λίμνην οἰκεῖ τὴν Μαιῶτιν διαφέρον τῶν ἐθνέων τῶν ἄλλων. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xvii.2)
  • Κροῖσοσ ἦν Λυδὸσ μὲν γένοσ, παῖσ δὲ Ἀλυάττεω, τύραννοσ δὲ ἐθνέων τῶν ἐντόσ Ἅλυοσ ποταμοῦ, ὃσ ῥέων ἀπὸ μεσαμβρίησ μεταξὺ Συρίων τε καὶ Παφλαγόνων ἐξιεῖ πρὸσ βορέην ἄνεμον ἐσ τὸν Εὔξεινον καλεόμενον πόντον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 6 2:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἀπικόμενοι ἐσ τὰ ἀπεπέμφθησαν, οἱ Λυδοὶ ἀνέθεσαν τὰ ἀναθήματα, ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι χρηστηρίοισι λέγοντεσ "Κροῖσοσ ὁ Λυδῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνέων βασιλεύσ, νομίσασ τάδε μαντήια εἶναι μοῦνα ἐν ἀνθρώποισι, ὑμῖν τε ἄξια δῶρα ἔδωκε τῶν ἐξευρημάτων, καὶ νῦν ὑμέασ ἐπειρωτᾷ εἰ στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσασ καὶ εἴ τινα στρατὸν ἀνδρῶν προσθέοιτο σύμμαχον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 53 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. group of animals

  2. country

  3. class

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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