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εὐφημία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφημία

Structure: εὐφημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/fhmos

Sense

  1. the use of words of good omen
  2. abstinence from inauspicious language, religious silence, silence
  3. prayer and praise, worship, honour, songs of praise, lauds

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

  • ἀπήντα δὲ ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμοσ ἔρωτι θαυμαστῷ τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, εὐφημίαι τε πρέπουσαι γυναικῶν ἐγίνοντο καὶ θυσίαι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ χαρὰ πάντων, ὥσπερ οὐ βασιλέα τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἀλλὰ βασιλείαν δεχομένησ, ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν κατέστησαν, ὁ μὲν ταῖσ ὡρ́αισ ἐκείναισ συνειληχὼσ μεσ ο βασιλεὺσ Σπόριοσ Οὐέττιοσ ψῆφον ἐπέδωκε τοῖσ πολίταισ καὶ πάντεσ ἤνεγκαν, προσφερομένων δ̓ αὐτῷ τῶν βασιλικῶν παρασήμων ἐπισχεῖν κελεύσασ ἔφη δεῖσθαι καὶ θεοῦ τὴν βασιλείαν ἐμπεδοῦντοσ αὐτῷ. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 7 1:2)
  • καὶ δεξιωσαμένων ἀλλήλουσ εὐφημίαι τε ἦσαν ἐσ αὐτοὺσ ποικίλαι, καὶ οὐ πρὶν ὁ δῆμοσ ἀπέστη τῆσ ἐκκλησίασ ἢ προγράψαι τοὺσ ὑπάτουσ τὰσ ἀφέσεισ τῶν στρατοπέδων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 14 6:11)
  • καὶ ὁ Κικέρων, ἅπασιν ἐπὶ λόγου δυνάμει μόνῃ γνώριμοσ ὤν, τότε καὶ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ διὰ στόματοσ ἦν καὶ σωτὴρ ἐδόκει περιφανῶσ ἀπολλυμένῃ τῇ πατρίδι γενέσθαι, χάριτέσ τε ἦσαν αὐτῷ παρὰ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ εὐφημίαι ποικίλαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 1 7:4)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν αὐτίκα ἐνηγγύα, καὶ ἠσπάζοντο ἀλλήλουσ, καὶ βοαὶ παρὰ τοῦ στρατοῦ καὶ εὐφημίαι πρὸσ ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν ἦσαν ἄπαυστοι δι’ ὅλησ τε τῆσ ἡμέρασ καὶ ἀνὰ τὴν νύκτα πᾶσαν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 7 5:3)
  • ἔτι γὰρ μᾶλλον αἱ πανηγύρεισ καὶ τὰ τῆσ εἰρήνησ χαρίεντα τοῦ παρ’ αὐτῆσ κόσμου προσδεῖται, καὶ νὴ Δία αἵ τε θεῶν τιμαὶ καὶ ἡρώων καὶ ὅσαι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὀφείλονται δικαίωσ εὐφημίαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 103:2)

Synonyms

  1. the use of words of good omen

Related

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

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