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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐθημοσύνη εὐθημοσύνᾱ εὐθημοσύναι
Genitive εὐθημοσύνης εὐθημοσύναιν εὐθημοσυνῶν
Dative εὐθημοσύνῃ εὐθημοσύναιν εὐθημοσύναις
Accusative εὐθημοσύνην εὐθημοσύνᾱ εὐθημοσύνᾱς
Vocative εὐθημοσύνη εὐθημοσύνᾱ εὐθημοσύναι

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

  • "τὰ δὲ προσκρούοντα τοῖσ κέρασι τῶν βοῶν οὐ τυγχάνει τῆσ ἀρίστησ καθ’ Ἡσίοδον εὐθημοσύνησ, ἀλλὰ σφαλλόμενα καὶ παρολισθαίνοντα ῥιπτομένοισ μᾶλλον ἢ σπειρομένοισ προσέοικεν ὅθεν ἢ φθείρουσιν αὐτὰ παντάπασιν αἱ ψυχρότητεσ, ἢ δύστηκτα καὶ ἄχυμα καὶ ξυλώδη τοῖσ χιτῶσι γυμνοῖσ ἐπισκήπτουσαι ποιοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 11:9)
  • διὰ ταῦτα οὖν καὶ ἐπεμέλετο ταύτησ τῆσ εὐθημοσύνησ μάλιστα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 8:5)
  • Περὶ εὐθημοσύνησ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. ib'. KRITWN 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. good management

  2. a habit of good order

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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