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εὖγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὖγμα εὖγματος

Structure: εὐγματ (Stem)

Etym.: eu)/xomai

Sense

  1. a boast, vaunt
  2. prayers, wishes

Declension

Third 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

  • κἀμῶν ἀκούσασ’ εὐγμάτων, ἔπειτα σὺ ὀλολυγμὸν ἱερὸν εὐμενῆ παιώνισον, Ἑλληνικὸν νόμισμα θυστάδοσ βοῆσ, θάρσοσ φίλοισ, λύουσα πολέμιον φόβον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode23)
  • πυρί <με > φλέξον, ἢ χθονὶ κάλυψον, ἤ ποντίοισ δάκεσι δὸσ βοράν, μηδέ μοι φθονήσῃσ εὐγμάτων, ἄναξ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, strophe 15)
  • ὦ πάντεσ ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην πρὸσ ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδοσ θεᾶσ ὅπωσ ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγοροσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:1)
  • > τρόμοσ μ’ ὑφέρπει κλύουσαν εὐγμάτων. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 103)

Synonyms

  1. a boast

  2. prayers

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

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