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εὐφωνία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: euphōnia

Principal Part: εὐφωνία

Structure: εὐφωνι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from εὔφωνος

Sense

  1. goodness of voice

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐφωνία εὐφωνία εὐφωνίαι
Genitive εὐφωνίας εὐφωνίαιν εὐφωνιῶν
Dative εὐφωνίᾳ εὐφωνίαιν εὐφωνίαις
Accusative εὐφωνίαν εὐφωνία εὐφωνίας
Vocative εὐφωνία εὐφωνία 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

  • "ἐκφέρων τε αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὰς ταφάς, ὥς φησι Ποσειδώνιος ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ καὶ εἰκοστῇ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν, τεχνιτῶν τῶν ἐπισημοτάτων χορῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ παντοίοις ὀργάνοις καὶ εὐφωνίαις παρέπεμπε τὸ σῶμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 67 1:1)
  • ἐσθῆτι σηρικῇ καὶ προσωπείῳ εὐπρεπεῖ, αὐλῷ τε καὶ τερετίσμασι καὶ τῇ τῶν ᾀδόντων εὐφωνίᾳ, οἷς κοσμεῖσθαι μηδὲν ὀ`ν 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

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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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