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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

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)
  • ἡ διὰ τῶν κυρίων τε καὶ κοινῶν καὶ ἐν μέσῳ κειμένων ὀνομάτων ἐκφέρουσα τὰ νοούμενα ἑρμηνεία. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33)
  • 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)
  • τοιαύτη μὲν οὖν τισ ἡ Θρασυμάχειοσ ἑρμηνεία, μέση τοῖν δυεῖν καὶ εὔκρατοσ καὶ εἰσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοὺσ χαρακτῆρασ ἐπίκαιρον ἀφετήριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 4:1)
  • δοκεῖ δή μοι τῶν μὲν ὑψηλῇ καὶ περιττῇ καὶ ἐξηλλαγμένῃ λέξει κεχρημένων κατὰ τὸ σαφέστερον καὶ κοινότερον τῇ ἑρμηνείᾳ κεχρῆσθαι προὔχειν ὁ Δημοσθένησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 342)
  • "τέλεια μὲν αὐτό τε τῶν ποιημάτων ἕκαστον, οἱο͂ν τὸ ᾀδόμενον ἢ αὐλούμενον ἢ κιθαριζόμενον καὶ ἡ ἑκάστου αὐτῶν ἑρμηνεία, οἱο͂ν ἥ τ’ αὔλησισ καὶ ἡ ᾠδὴ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν τοιούτων· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 367)
  • λόγοσ δέ γε ἦν ἡ τῆσ σῆσ διαφορότητοσ ἑρμηνεία. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 405:4)

Synonyms

  1. interpretation

Related

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

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