Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐφημία εὐφημίᾱ εὐφημίαι
Genitive εὐφημίᾱς εὐφημίαιν εὐφημιῶν
Dative εὐφημίᾱͅ εὐφημίαιν εὐφημίαις
Accusative εὐφημίᾱν εὐφημίᾱ εὐφημίᾱς
Vocative εὐφημίᾱ εὐφημίᾱ εὐφημίαι

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

  • εὐφημία ’στω, εὐφημία ’στω. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, prologue1)
  • ἴτω δὲ Δαναί̈δαισ εὐφημία. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:52)
  • εὐφημία μὲν πρῶτα νῦν ὑπαρχέτω. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Lyric-Scene, strophe1)
  • εὐφημία ’στω. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics11)

Synonyms

  1. the use of words of good omen

Related

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION