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εὐμοιρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐμοιρία

Structure: εὐμοιρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/moiros

Sense

  1. happy possession, wealth or weal

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐμοιρία εὐμοιρίᾱ εὐμοιρίαι
Genitive εὐμοιρίᾱς εὐμοιρίαιν εὐμοιριῶν
Dative εὐμοιρίᾱͅ εὐμοιρίαιν εὐμοιρίαις
Accusative εὐμοιρίᾱν εὐμοιρίᾱ εὐμοιρίᾱς
Vocative εὐμοιρίᾱ εὐμοιρίᾱ εὐμοιρίαι

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 τὸ κεφάλαιον ἤδη τοῦ σκέμματοσ τοῦτο ἐτύγχανεν,^ εἰ δοκιμαστέοσ εὐνοῦχοσ ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν παραγγέλλων ^ καὶ νέων προστασίαν ἐγχειρισθῆναι ἀξιῶν, τοῦ μὲν καὶ σχῆμα καὶ σώματοσ εὐμοιρίαν προσεῖναι φιλοσόφῳ δεῖν λέγοντοσ, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, πώγωνα βαθὺν ἔχειν αὐτὸν καὶ τοῖσ προσιοῦσι καὶ μανθάνειν βουλομένοισ ἀξιόπιστον καὶ πρέποντα ταῖσ μυρίαισ ἃσ χρὴ παρὰ βασιλέωσ ἀποφέρεσθαι, τὸ δὲ τοῦ εὐνούχου καὶ τῶν βακήλων χεῖρον εἶναι · (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 8:2)
  • εἴτ’ οὖν ^ φωνῆσ εὐμοιρίαν ζητεῖσ, ποῦ ἂν ἀλλαχόθι εὑρ́οισ, ἢ ποῖον πολυφωνότερον ἄκουσμα ἢ ἐμμελέστερον ; (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 72:2)

Synonyms

  1. happy possession

Similar forms

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

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