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εὔροια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔροια

Structure: εὐροι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a good flow, free passage
  2. fluency
  3. successful progress

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὔροια εὐροίᾱ εύ̓ροιαι
Genitive εὐροίᾱς εὐροίαιν εὐροιῶν
Dative εὐροίᾱͅ εὐροίαιν εὐροίαις
Accusative εὐροίᾱν εὐροίᾱ εὐροίᾱς
Vocative εὐροίᾱ εὐροίᾱ εύ̓ροιαι

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

  • "ἐτρύφησαν μὲν γὰρ ὡσ οὐδένεσ ἕτεροι, τῶν πάντων εὐροίασ καὶ πλούτου καὶ τῆσ λοιπῆσ αὐτοὺσ χορηγίασ κατασχούσησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:52)
  • ἄνθρωπε, τὸ λεγόμενον τοῦτο ἀπονοήθητι ἤδη ὑπὲρ εὐροίασ, ὑπὲρ ἐλευθερίασ, ὑπὲρ μεγαλοψυχίασ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 41:1)
  • μέγασ ὁ ἀγών ἐστιν, θεῖον τὸ ἔργον, ὑπὲρ βασιλείασ, ὑπὲρ ἐλευθερίασ, ὑπὲρ εὐροίασ, ὑπὲρ ἀταραξίασ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 28:2)
  • καὶ δὴ καὶ ὑδάτων τῶν ἐκ Διὸσ εὐροίασ τούτουσ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι χρεών, καὶ ὅσα ἐντὸσ πόλεωσ ἢ ὁπόσα ἔξω πρέπον ἂν οἰκεῖν εἰή· (Plato, Laws, book 6 197:1)
  • δάκρυα μὲν Ἑκάβῃ τε καὶ Ἰλιάδεσσι γυναιξὶ Μοῖραι ἐπέκλωσαν δὴ τότε γεινομέναισ, σοὶ δέ, Δίων, ῥέξαντι καλῶν ἐπινίκιον ἔργων δαίμονεσ εὐροίασ ἐλπίδασ ἐξέχεαν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. successful progress

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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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