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εὐγένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐγένεια

Structure: εὐγενει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: eu)genh/s

Sense

  1. nobility of birth, high descent

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

  • καὶ ὀρχοῦνταί γε ταῦτα οἱ εὐγενέστατοι καὶ πρωτεύοντεσ ἐν ἑκάστῃ τῶν πόλεων, οὐχ ὅπωσ αἰδούμενοι ἀλλὰ καὶ μέγα φρονοῦντεσ ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι μᾶλλον ἤπερ ^ ἐπ’ εὐγενείαισ καὶ λειτουργίαισ καὶ ἀξιώμασι προγονικοῖσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 79:4)
  • ἐμῶν τ’ εὐγένεια παίδων. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 12)
  • ἡ εὐγένεια δὲ οὐδέν σ’ ἐπωφέλησεν, οὐδ’ ὁ Πύθιοσ τρίποδα καθίζων Φοῖβοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, episode 8:10)
  • διαφαίνεται δέ τισ ὁμοία κἀν τούτοισ εὐγένεια καὶ σεμνότησ ἁρμονίασ τὸν ἀρχαῖον φυλάττουσα πίνον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 39 2:4)
  • καὶ σοφὸσ ἦν ἄρ’ ὁ ποιητὴσ ὅσ φησιν ὅταν δὲ κρηπὶσ μὴ καταβληθῇ γένουσ ὀρθῶσ, ἀνάγκη δυστυχεῖν τοὺσ ἐκγόνουσ καλὸσ οὖν παρρησίασ θησαυρὸσ εὐγένεια, ἧσ δὴ πλεῖστον λόγον ποιητέον τοῖσ νομίμου παιδοποιίασ γλιχομένοισ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 2 3:1)
  • ἀναζητήσασ παντὸσ πεδίου εὔγειον κλῆρον σπεῖρε τὰ ἴδια σπέρματα πεποιθὼσ τῇ εὐγενείᾳ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 26:20)
  • Ἀχιλλέα γὰρ ἐγὼ πείθομαι εἴπερ τινὰ καὶ ἄλλον ἡρ́ω εἶναι, τῇ τε εὐγενείᾳ τεκμαιρόμενοσ καὶ τῷ κάλλει καὶ τῇ ῥώμῃ τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ τῷ νέον μεταλλάξαι ἐξ ἀνθρώπων καὶ τῇ Ὁμήρου ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ ποιήσει καὶ τῷ ἐρωτικὸν γενέσθαι καὶ φιλέταιρον, ὡσ καὶ ἐπαποθανεῖν ἑλέσθαι τοῖσ παιδικοῖσ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 23 6:1)
  • μέγα γὰρ ἡ εὐγένειά σου. (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:40)

Related

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

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