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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

  • προελθόντοσ δέ μου κρότοσ παρὰ παντὸσ τοῦ πλήθουσ εὐθὺσ ἦν καὶ μετ’ εὐφημιῶν ἐπιβοήσεισ χάριν ἔχειν ὁμολογούντων τῇ ’μῇ στρατηγίᾳ. (Flavius Josephus, 299:3)
  • οἱ δὲ τάσ τε πύλασ ἀνοίγουσιν αὐτῷ καὶ μετ’ εὐφημιῶν ὑπήντων σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην ἀνακαλοῦντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 546:2)
  • Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ τῶν μὲν στασιαστῶν καταπεφευγότων εἰσ τὴν πόλιν, καιομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ τε τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ τῶν πέριξ ἁπάντων, κομίσαντεσ τὰσ σημαίασ εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ θέμενοι τῆσ ἀνατολικῆσ πύλησ ἄντικρυσ ἔθυσάν τε αὐταῖσ αὐτόθι καὶ τὸν Τίτον μετὰ μεγίστων εὐφημιῶν ἀπέφηναν αὐτοκράτορα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 358:1)
  • ᾗ γὰρ τοσοῦτον εὐφημιῶν καὶ δόξησ περίεστι, ταύτῃ, κἂν ὡσ ἐλάχιστον τούτων ὧν μέτεστιν εἴπῃ τισ, οὐ τοῦ παντὸσ ἁμαρτήσεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:2)
  • μᾶλλον γὰρ ἐκείνουσ αἴρουσιν ἢ τὴν πόλιν ἐγκωμιάζουσι καὶ πλείω χάριν ἂν παρ’ ἐκείνων αὐτοῖσ οἶμαι τῆσ βλασφημίασ ἢ τῶν εὐφημιῶν εἶναι παρ’ ὑμῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 72:4)

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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