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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

  • καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα ὑπερήδιστον, οἶμαι, οἴκων ὁ κάλλιστοσ ἐσ ὑποδοχὴν λόγων ἀναπεπταμένοσ καὶ ἐπαίνου καὶ εὐφημίασ μεστὸσ ὤν, ἠρέμα καὶ αὐτὸσ ὥσπερ τὰ ἄντρα συνεπηχῶν καὶ τοῖσ λεγομένοισ παρακολουθῶν καὶ παρατείνων τὰ τελευταῖα τῆσ φωνῆσ καὶ τοῖσ ὑστάτοισ τῶν λόγων ἐμβραδύνων, μᾶλλον δὲ ὡσ ἄν τισ εὐμαθὴσ ἀκροατὴσ διαμνημονεύων τὰ εἰρημένα καὶ τὸν λέγοντα ἐπαινῶν καὶ ἀντίδοσιν οὐκ ἄμουσον ποιούμενοσ πρὸσ αὐτά· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 3:2)
  • οὐκέτι μέντοι μέμνημαι ὅ τι τὸ σπειρόμενον ἐκεῖνο ἦν, πλὴν τοῦτο μόνον ὅτι κάτωθεν ἀφορῶντεσ ἄνθρωποι ἐπῄνουν καὶ μετ’ εὐφημίασ καθ’ οὓσ γενοίμην τῇ πτήσει παρέπεμπον. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 11:3)
  • ἠκούσατ’ ἄνδρεσ ἆρα τῆσ εὐφημίασ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees5)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν νόμοσ εὐξάμενον κελεύει τὸν κήρυκα μετ’ εὐφημίασ πολλῆσ, οὕτωσ ὑμῖν τὸ βουλεύεσθαι περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων παραδιδόναι· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 18:2)
  • καὶ προϊέμενοσ τὸ πεῖσαι καὶ περιγενέσθαι πολλάκισ ὅπωσ αὐξάνωνται καὶ θαρσῶσιν, ἐνίοισ δ’ καὶ συναναπληρῶν μετ’ εὐφημίασ τὸ ἐλλεῖπον, ὡσ ὁ Νέστωρ οὔτισ τοι τὸν μῦθον ὀνόσσεται ὅσσοι Ἀχαιοί, οὐδὲ πάλιν ἐρέει· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 22 5:1)

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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