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ἑρμηνεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρμηνεία

Structure: ἑρμηνει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e(rmhneu/w

Sense

  1. interpretation, explanation

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑρμηνεία ἑρμηνείᾱ ἑρμηνεῖαι
Genitive ἑρμηνείᾱς ἑρμηνείαιν ἑρμηνειῶν
Dative ἑρμηνείᾱͅ ἑρμηνείαιν ἑρμηνείαις
Accusative ἑρμηνείᾱν ἑρμηνείᾱ ἑρμηνείᾱς
Vocative ἑρμηνείᾱ ἑρμηνείᾱ ἑρμηνεῖαι

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

  • ἐν ᾠδαῖσ καὶ παροιμίαισ καὶ παραβολαῖσ καὶ ἐν ἑρμηνείαισ ἀπεθαύμασάν σε χῶραι. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 47:17)
  • εἰ γάρ τισ ἄλλοσ ἐκπλήττεται ταῖσ Πλατωνικαῖσ ἑρμηνείαισ, εὖ ἴσθι νῦν, κἀγὼ τούτων εἷσ εἰμι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 2:1)
  • μάλιστα δὲ σωφρονητέον ἐν ταῖσ τῶν ὀρῶν ἢ τειχῶν ἢ ποταμῶν ἑρμηνείαισ, ὡσ μὴ δύναμιν λόγων ἀπειροκάλωσ παρεπιδείκνυσθαι δοκοίησ καὶ τὸ σαυτοῦ δρᾶν παρεὶσ τὴν ἱστορίαν, ἀλλ̓ ὀλίγον προσαψάμενοσ, τοῦ χρησίμου καὶ σαφοῦσ ἕνεκα, μεταβήσῃ ἐκφυγὼν τὸν ἰξὸν τὸν ἐν τῷ πράγματι καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἅπασαν λιχνείαν, οἱο͂ν ὁρᾷσ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ὁ μεγαλόφρων ποιεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 571)

Synonyms

  1. interpretation

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

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