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ἔρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρις ἔριδος

Structure: ἐριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. strife, quarrel (especially of battle)
  2. contention, rivalry
  3. (after Homer) political or domestic strife, discord, quarrel, wordy wrangling, disputation, contention

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

  • τῶν δὲ Συρακοσίων ὁ δῆμοσ ἐν πολλῇ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἔριδι ἦσαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 132)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ, ἃ Σίμωνι περὶ ἱππικῆσ ἐνδεῶσ λελεγμένα ἦν, ᾠήθη δεῖν ἀναγράψαι, οὐχὶ ἔριδι τῇ πρὸσ Σίμωνα, ἀλλ̓ ὅτι ὠφέλιμα ἐσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐγίγνωσκεν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 1 5:1)
  • τόσσοσ δοῦποσ ἔγεντο θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνιόντων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 67:10)
  • Σοφοκλῆσ Ἔριδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 55 2:5)
  • ἢ τί πρὸσ τὰ τοιαῦτα δυσφημήματα λέγειν ἕξομεν, ὡσ θεὸσ μὲν αἰτίαν φύει βροτοῖσ, ὅταν κακῶσαι δῶμα παμπήδην θέλῃ καί τίσ τ’ ἂρ σφῶε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 14 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. strife

  2. contention

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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