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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

  • πρὸσ εὐφημίαν αὐτὸ τρέπεσθαι. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 31:1)
  • ὄρνιθα μὲν τόνδ’ αἴσιον ποιούμεθα, τὸ σόν τε χρηστὸν καὶ λόγων εὐφημίαν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:1)
  • στὰσ δ’ ἐν μέσῳ Ταλθύβιοσ, ᾧ τόδ’ ἦν μέλον, εὐφημίαν ἀνεῖπε καὶ σιγὴν στρατῷ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue19)
  • "τοὺσ δ’ Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ ἥλιον ἡγουμένουσ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀσπάζεσθαι μὲν ἄξιόν ἐστι καὶ φιλεῖν δι’ εὐφημίαν, ὃ μάλιστα τιμῶσιν ὧν ἴσασι καὶ ποθοῦσιν, εἰσ τοῦτο τιθέντασ τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν ἐπίνοιαν. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 211)
  • οἱ δὲ νῦν συνάγοντεσ ἐπὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ μάλιστα οἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ καλῆσ Ἀλεξανδρείασ βοῶσι, κεκράγασι, βλασφημοῦσι τὸν οἰνοχόον, τὸν διάκονον, τὸν μάγειρον κλαίουσι δ’ οἱ παῖδεσ τυπτόμενοι κονδύλοισ ἄλλοσ ἄλλοθεν, καὶ οὐχ οἱο͂ν οἱ κεκλημένοι μετὰ πάσησ ἀηδίασ δειπνοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ κἂν τύχῃ θυσία τισ οὖσα, παρακαλυψάμενοσ ὁ θεὸσ οἰχήσεται καταλιπὼν οὐ μόνον τὸν οἶκον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἅπασαν, γελοῖον γάρ ἐστιν αὐτὸν τὸν εὐφημίαν κηρύξαντα καταρᾶσθαι τῇ γυναικὶ καὶ τοῖσ τέκνοισ, καὶ τοῖσ δειπνοῦσι δ’ ἂν εἴποι ὁ τοιοῦτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 171)

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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