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εὐθημοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐθημοσύνη

Structure: εὐθημοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)qh/mwn

Sense

  1. good management
  2. a habit of good order, tidiness

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

  • καλὸν μὲν γὰρ ἡγεῖτο ὁ Κῦροσ καὶ ἐν οἰκίᾳ εἶναι ἐπιτήδευμα τὴν εὐθημοσύνην· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 8:1)
  • πολὺ δ’ ἔτι κάλλιον ἐνόμιζε τὴν τῶν στρατιωτικῶν φύλων εὐθημοσύνην εἶναι, ὅσῳ τε ὀξύτεροι οἱ καιροὶ τῶν εἰσ τὰ πολεμικὰ χρήσεων καὶ μείζω τὰ σφάλματα <τὰ> ἀπὸ τῶν ὑστεριζόντων ἐν αὐτοῖσ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. good management

  2. a habit of good order

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

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