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ἐρώτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρώτησις ἐρώτησεως

Structure: ἐρωτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)rwta/w

Sense

  1. a questioning

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐρώτησις ἐρωτήσει ἐρωτήσεις
Genitive ἐρωτήσεως ἐρωτήσοιν ἐρωτήσεων
Dative ἐρωτήσει ἐρωτήσοιν ἐρωτήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐρώτησιν ἐρωτήσει ἐρωτήσεις
Vocative ἐρώτησι ἐρωτήσει ἐρωτήσεις

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

  • ἀπόκριναί μοι πρόσ τινα οὐ χαλεπὴν ἐρώτησιν. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 1:5)
  • μίαν ἐρώτησιν ἐρωτήσασ ἐπέγραψα τῷ βιβλίῳ κατὰ τὸ ἔθοσ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 54:2)
  • ὁ δὲ πιστεύσασ τῇ ἀποπομπῇ τοῦ μισθοῦ καὶ τῇ ἐπιγραφῇ τοῦ βιβλίου, πρὸσ μίαν ἐρώτησιν ‐ ἦν δὲ αὕτη· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 54:4)
  • ὅταν δὲ φαίνηται τῷ ὄντι βουλόμενοσ μαθεῖν, ἐθιστέον ἐφιστάναι καὶ ποιεῖν τι διάλειμμα μεταξὺ τῆσ ἐρωτήσεωσ καὶ τῆσ ἀποκρίσεωσ, ἐν ᾧ προσθεῖναι μὲν ὁ ἐρωτῶν, εἴ τι βούλεται, δύναται, σκέψασθαι δ’ αὐτὸσ περὶ ὧν ἀποκρινεῖται, καὶ μὴ κατατρέχειν μηδὲ καταχωννύναι τὴν ἐρώτησιν, ἔτι πυνθανομένοισ πολλάκισ ὑπὸ σπουδῆσ ἄλλασ ἀντ’ ἄλλων ἀποκρίσεισ διδόντα. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 20 1:1)
  • μάλιστα δὴ περὶ τοῦτο δεῖ τὴν ἀδολεσχίαν συνέχειν ὥσπερ εἰσ ἴχνοσ ἐμβιβάζοντα τὴν ἐρώτησιν καὶ κέντρῳ καὶ διαστήματι τῇ χρείᾳ τοῦ πυνθανομένου περιγράψαντα τὴν ἀπόκρισιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 21 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a questioning

Related

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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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