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εὐτονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐτονία

Structure: εὐτονι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. high tension, vigor

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

  • ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τὴν ὠμότητα μεγαλουργίαν καὶ τὸ δυσπαραίτητον εὐτονίαν καὶ μισοπονηρίαν τὸ δύσκολον οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τίθενται· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 8 1:2)
  • ἀλλὰ δοκεῖ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τὸ ταρακτικὸν αὐτοῦ πρακτικὸν καὶ τὸ ἀπειλητικὸν εὐθαρσὲσ εἶναι καὶ τὸ ἀπειθὲσ ἰσχυρόν ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τὴν ὠμότητα μεγαλουργίαν καὶ τὸ δυσπαραίτητον εὐτονίαν καὶ μισοπονηρίαν τὸ δύσκολον οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τίθενται· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 8 1:1)
  • "τοῦ μὲν γὰρ ἡλίου δι’ εὐτονίαν καὶ λαμπρότητα πρὸσ τῇ σελήνῃ γιγνομένην μετὰ πληγῆσ τὴν ἀνάκλασιν φέρεσθαι πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ εἰκόσ ἐστιν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 23 6:11)
  • καὶ ὕδωρ οὔθ’ ἑαυτὰ συνέχειν οὔθ’ ἕτερα, πνευματικῆσ δὲ μετοχῇ καὶ πυρώδουσ δυνάμεωσ τὴν ἑνότητα διαφυλάττειν ἀέρα δὲ καὶ πῦρ αὑτῶν τ’ εἶναι δι’ εὐτονίαν ἐκτατικά, καὶ τοῖσ δυσὶν ἐκείνοισ ἐγκεκραμένα τόνον παρέχειν καὶ τὸ μόνιμον καὶ οὐσιῶδεσ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 49 2:1)
  • "σιωπῆσ γὰρ οἰκεῖον καὶ ἡσυχίασ τὸ ἀναφὲσ καὶ ἀπαθὲσ καὶ ἄπληκτον, ἡ δὲ φωνὴ πληγὴ σώματοσ διηχοῦσ, διηχὲσ δὲ τὸ συμπαθὲσ αὑτῷ καὶ συμφυὲσ εὐκίνητον δὲ καὶ κοῦφον καὶ ὁμαλὸν καὶ ὑπήκοον τοῦ δι’ εὐτονίαν καὶ συνέχειαν, οἱο͂́σ ἐστι παρ’ ἡμῖν ὁ ἀήρ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:3)

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

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