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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

  • οὐ γάρ, οἶμαι, χρὴ παρὰ τῶν ποιητῶν ἐσ τὸ λεπτότατον ἀκριβολογουμένουσ ἀπαιτεῖν κατὰ συλλαβὴν ἑκάστην ἐντελῆ πάντωσ τὰ εἰρημένα, κἂν εἴ τι ἐν τῷ τῆσ ποιήσεωσ δρόμῳ παραρρυὲν λάθῃ, πικρῶσ τοῦτο ἐξετάζειν, ἀλλ̓ εἰδέναι ὅτι πολλὰ ἡμεῖσ καὶ τῶν μέτρων ἕνεκα καὶ τῆσ εὐφωνίασ ἐπεμβάλλομεν· (Lucian, 8:2)
  • τί οὖν ἦν ἄτοπον, εἰ καὶ Δημοσθένει φροντὶσ εὐφωνίασ τε καὶ ἐμμελείασ ἐγένετο καὶ τοῦ μηδὲν εἰκῇ καὶ ἀβασανίστωσ τιθέναι μήτε ὄνομα μήτε νόημα; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2569)
  • καλὸν ἢ τῆσ περὶ μέλη καὶ ᾠδὰσ εὐφωνίασ μετεῖναι, καὶ πολὺ τὸν Ἡσίοδον εὐεπείᾳ καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ὑπερφθέγγεσθαι· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 5 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. goodness of voice

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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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