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εὐφωνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφωνία

Structure: εὐφωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/fwnos

Sense

  1. goodness of voice

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐφωνία εὐφωνίᾱ εὐφωνίαι
Genitive εὐφωνίᾱς εὐφωνίαιν εὐφωνιῶν
Dative εὐφωνίᾱͅ εὐφωνίαιν εὐφωνίαις
Accusative εὐφωνίᾱν εὐφωνίᾱ εὐφωνίᾱς
Vocative εὐφωνίᾱ εὐφωνίᾱ εὐφωνίαι

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

  • ἐσθῆτι σηρικῇ καὶ προσωπείῳ εὐπρεπεῖ, αὐλῷ τε καὶ τερετίσμασι καὶ τῇ τῶν ᾀδόντων εὐφωνίᾳ, οἷσ κοσμεῖσθαι μηδὲν ὂν τὸ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ πρᾶγμα, ὁ τότε κατὰ τὸν Νέρωνα εὐδοκιμῶν ὀρχηστήσ, οὐκ ἀσύνετοσ, ὥσ φασιν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ ἔν τε ἱστορίασ μνήμῃ καὶ κινήσεωσ κάλλει διενεγκών, ἐδεήθη τοῦ Δημητρίου εὐγνωμονεστάτην, οἶμαι, τὴν δέησιν, ἰδεῖν ὀρχούμενον, ἔπειτα κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑπέσχετό γε ἄνευ αὐλοῦ καὶ ᾀσμάτων ἐπιδείξεσθαι αὐτῷ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 63:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν οὔτε εὐφωνίᾳ τοσοῦτον διαφέρουσιν Ἀθηναῖοι τῶν ἄλλων οὔτε σωμάτων μεγέθει καὶ ῥώμῃ, ὅσον φιλοτιμίᾳ, ἥπερ μάλιστα παροξύνει πρὸσ τὰ καλὰ καὶ ἔντιμα. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 14:2)

Synonyms

  1. goodness of voice

Related

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

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