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εὐμορφία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐμορφία

Structure: εὐμορφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/morfos

Sense

  1. beauty of form, symmetry, symmetry

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

  • τὸ δ’ ἐντελὲσ κάλλοσ, οἶμαι, τοῦτό ἐστιν, ὁπόταν εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ συνδράμῃ ψυχῆσ ἀρετὴ καὶ εὐμορφία σώματοσ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 11:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ δὴ καὶ τότε ἀγνοεῖν εἰκὸσ αὐτοὺσ ὡσ ἐπίχριστοσ ἡ εὐμορφία ἐστίν, ἔνδοθεν τὰ πάντα ὁρῶντασ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 28:2)
  • ἓν μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἐπαινετόν, οἱο͂ν ἡ διὰ τῆσ ὄψεωσ εὐμορφία· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 88:6)
  • φοβερὸν μὲν γὰρ ἦν γονεῦσι παιδὸσ εὐμορφία, φοβερὸν δὲ γυναικὸσ ἀνδρί· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:8)
  • Ὁ δὲ τῶν Βαβυλωνίων βασιλεὺσ Ναβουχοδονόσοροσ τοὺσ εὐγενεστάτουσ λαβὼν τῶν Ιοὐδαίων παῖδασ καὶ τοὺσ Σαχχίου τοῦ βασιλέωσ αὐτῶν συγγενεῖσ, οἳ καὶ ταῖσ ἀκμαῖσ τῶν σωμάτων καὶ ταῖσ εὐμορφίαισ τῶν ὄψεων ἦσαν περίβλεπτοι, παιδαγωγοῖσ καὶ τῇ δι’ αὐτῶν θεραπείᾳ παραδίδωσι ποιήσασ τινὰσ αὐτῶν ἐκτομίασ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 10 236:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ καὶ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ἐν τῷ εὐμόρφῳ τὸ ἀπέριττον κἀν τῷ εὐκόσμῳ τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐσ τὸ εὐπρεπὲσ σύμμετρον, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρὰ τὰσ χρείασ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλ’ ὁπόσον ἂν καὶ γυναικὶ σώφρονι καὶ καλῇ ἀρκέσῃ ἐπισημότερον ἐργάσασθαι τὸ κάλλοσ, ἢ περὶ τῇ δειρῇ λεπτόσ τισ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ περὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ σφενδόνη εὔφοροσ ἢ ἐν τοῖν ὤτοιν ἐλλόβια ἢ πόρπη τισ ἢ ταινία τὸ ἄφετον τῆσ κόμησ συνδέουσα, τοσοῦτον τῇ εὐμορφίᾳ προστιθεῖσα ὅσον τῇ ἐσθῆτι ἡ πορφύρα· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:1)
  • ἃ δ’ εὐτύχησεν Ἑλλάσ, ὠλόμην ἐγὼ εὐμορφίᾳ πραθεῖσα, κὠνειδίζομαι ἐξ ὧν ἐχρῆν με στέφανον ἐπὶ κάρᾳ λαβεῖν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:26)
  • ἅπασ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κατάλογοσ αὐτῷ τοιοῦτοσ καὶ πολλὰ ἄλλα, ἐν οἷσ ἀναγκασθεὶσ ὀνόματα λαμβάνειν οὐ καλὰ τὴν φύσιν ἑτέροισ αὐτὰ κοσμεῖ καλοῖσ καὶ λύει τὴν ἐκείνων δυσχέρειαν τῇ τούτων εὐμορφίᾳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1636)

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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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