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εὐκαιρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐκαιρία

Structure: εὐκαιρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. good season, opportunity

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 ἐγένετο Κύριοσ καταφυγὴ τῷ πένητι, βοηθὸσ ἐν εὐκαιρίαισ ἐν θλίψεσι. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 9:10)
  • Ἱνατί, Κύριε, ἀφέστηκασ μακρόθεν, ὑπερορᾷσ ἐν εὐκαιρίαισ ἐν θλίψεσιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 9:22)
  • ἀρετῇ γὰρ χώρασ καὶ τόπων εὐκαιρίαισ, ἔτι δ’ ἀέρων κράσει, καλλιστεύουσαι κατὰ λόγον καλοῦνται καὶ πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν εἰσὶν εὐδαίμονεσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 82 4:1)
  • πόλεσίν τε γὰρ ὡμίλει δεξιῶσ καὶ φιλανθρώπωσ καὶ τοὺσ δυνάστασ ἐθεράπευεν εὐκαιρίαισ ὧν ἑκάστουσ ἐδωρεῖτο μείζουσ τὰσ χάριτασ ἐμποιῶν καὶ τὸ μεγαλόψυχον φύσει πρὸσ τὴν βασιλείαν εὐπρεπὲσ ἔχων, ὥστ’ αὐτῷ πάντα διὰ πάντων αὔξεσθαι πρὸσ τὸ πλεῖον ἀεὶ προχωρούντων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 390:2)
  • Εὐρυκλῆσ ἀπὸ Λακεδαίμονοσ οὐκ ἄσημοσ τῶν ἐκεῖ κακὸσ δὲ τὴν ψυχὴν ἄνθρωποσ καὶ περὶ τρυφὴν καὶ κολακείαν δεινὸσ ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν ἔχειν τε καὶ μὴ δοκεῖν, ἐπιδημήσασ ὡσ τὸν Ἡρώδην δῶρά τε δίδωσιν αὐτῷ καὶ πλείω παρ’ ἐκείνου λαβὼν ταῖσ εὐκαιρίαισ τῶν ἐντεύξεων ἐπραγματεύσατο φίλοσ ἐν τοῖσ μάλιστα γενέσθαι βασιλέωσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 356:1)

Synonyms

  1. good season

Related

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

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