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ἑστίασις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: hestiasis

Principal Part: ἑστίασις

Structure: ἑστιασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ἑστιάω

Sense

  1. a feasting, banqueting, entertainment

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

  • οὐκοῦν ὀλίγα μοι αὐτοῦ ἀνάγνωθι τοῦ βιβλίου, ὅπως μὴ παντάπασιν ἀπολειποίμην τῆς ἑστιάσεως: (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 1:14)
  • ἡ γὰρ Σάμος εὐθὺς καὶ τὸ Πολυκράτους πάθος καὶ τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτοῦ μέχρι Περσῶν πλάνη, καὶ τὰ ἔτι ἀρχαιότερα, ἡ τοῦ Ταντάλου φλυαρία καὶ ἡ παρ αὐτῷ θεῶν ἑστίασις καὶ ἡ Πέλοπος κρεουργία καὶ ὁ ἐλεφάντινος ὦμος αὐτοῦ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 54:2)
  • ὥστε οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις ἑστιῶν ἡμᾶς ἡδίστην ταύτην ἑστίασιν, ἧς οὐκ οἶδα τις ^ ἡδίων ἔμοιγε, καὶ μάλιστα ὅσῳ νήφοντες ἐν εἰρήνῃ καὶ ἀναιμωτὶ ἔξω βέλους ἑστιασόμεθα, εἴτε γέροντες ἐπαρῴνησάν τι παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον εἴτε νέοι, εἰπεῖν τε ὅσα ἥκιστα ἐχρῆν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀκράτου προαχθέντες καὶ πρᾶξαι. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 2:2)
  • παρεστῶτα τῷ Κλεοδήμῳ παῖδα οἰνοχόον ὄντα ὡραῖον ἰδὼν ὑπομειδιῶντα - χρὴ γάρ, οἶμαι, καὶ ὅσα πάρεργα τῆς ἑστιάσεως εἰπεῖν, καὶ μάλιστα εἴ τι πρὸς τὸ γλαφυρώτερον ἐπράχθη - μάλα ἤδη παρεφύλαττον ὅ τι καὶ μειδιάσειε. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 15:3)
  • οἱ δ ἐπῄνουν τὰ λεγόμενα, ὥστε καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑστίασιν τῶν γάμων παρεκάλουν αὐτόν. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 1 7:2)
  • ἡ δ ἑστίασις ἰσχάδες καὶ στέμφυλα καὶ τυρὸς ἔσται: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 52 3:8)
  • ἀλλ ἐστὶν ἡ πόλις ἐκ πολλῶν, ὥσπερ δ ἑστίασις συμφορητὸς καλλίων μιᾶς καὶ ἁπλῆς: (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 262:3)

Synonyms

  1. a feasting

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

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