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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

  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ἐυθημοσύνη γὰρ ἀρίστη θνητοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ, κακοθημοσύνη δὲ κακίστη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 53:3)

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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