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εὐπρέπεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπρέπεια

Structure: εὐπρεπει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)preph/s

Sense

  1. goodly appearance, dignity, comeliness
  2. colourable appearance, speciousness, plausibility

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

  • διὰ τοῦτο λήψονται τὸ βασίλειον τῆσ εὐπρεπείασ καὶ τὸ διάδημα τοῦ κάλλουσ ἐκ χειρὸσ Κυρίου, ὅτι τῇ δεξιᾷ σκεπάσει αὐτοὺσ καὶ τῷ βραχίονι ὑπερασπιεῖ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 5:16)
  • Ἐν τοῖσ προφήταισ συνετρίβη ἡ καρδία μου, ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐσαλεύθη πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου, ἐγενήθην ὡσ ἀνὴρ συντετριμμένοσ καὶ ὡσ ἄνθρωποσ συνεχόμενοσ ἀπὸ οἴνου ἀπὸ προσώπου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου εὐπρεπείασ δόξησ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 23:7)
  • οὓσ ἰδὼν ὁ τύραννοσ καθάπερ ἐν χορῷ περιέχοντασ μέσην τὴν μητέρα, ἥσθη ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῆσ εὐπρεπείασ ἐκπλαγεὶσ καὶ τῆσ εὐγενείασ, προσεμειδίασεν αὐτοῖσ καὶ πλησίον καλέσασ ἔφη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:4)
  • ἡ δὲ πᾶσα τῷ ἔργῳ χορηγία ἡ παλαιὰ ἱστορία ἐστίν, ὡσ προεῖπον, καὶ ἡ πρόχειροσ αὐτῆσ μνήμη τε καὶ μετ’ εὐπρεπείασ ἐπίδειξισ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 36:5)
  • "δεῖ δέ τινοσ εὐπρεπείασ ἁπτομένῳ καλῶν καὶ ὡραίων· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 518)

Related

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

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