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ἔρανος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρανος

Etym.: Perh. from e)ra/w.

Sense

  1. a meal to which each contributed his share
  2. any contribution, subscriptions
  3. a kindness, service, favour
  4. a society of subscribers to a common fund, a club

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔρανοσ τάδε γ’ ἐστίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 63 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔρανοσ τάδε γ’ ἐστίν, τίνι διαφέρει ἀλλήλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 644)
  • καλεῖται δ’ ὁ αὐτὸσ καὶ ἔρανοσ καὶ θίασοσ καὶ οἱ συνιόντεσ ἐρανισταὶ καὶ θιασῶται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 64 1:3)
  • ἔρανοσ γάρ ἐστιν πολιτικὸσ καὶ κοινὸσ πάνθ’ ὅσα, ταξάντων τῶν νόμων, ἕκαστοσ ἡμῶν ποιεῖ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 27:1)
  • ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔρανοσ τάδε γ’ ἐστίν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 20:7)

Synonyms

  1. a kindness

Related

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

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