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εὐχωλή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐχωλή

Structure: εὐχωλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: eu)/xomai

Sense

  1. a prayer, vow
  2. a boast, vaunt, a shout of triumph
  3. an object of boasting, a boast, glory

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

  • πρόφρων, Ἀργυρότοξε, δίδου χάριν Αἰσχύλου υἱῷ Ναυκράτει, εὐχωλὰσ τάσδ’ ὑποδεξάμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1371)
  • εὖτ’ ἂν δὲ γίνηται καταφερὴσ ὁ ἥλιοσ, ὀλίγοι μὲν τινὲσ τῶν ἱρέων περὶ τὤγαλμα πεπονέαται, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ αὐτῶν ξύλων κορύνασ ἔχοντεσ ἑστᾶσι τοῦ ἱροῦ ἐν τῇ ἐσόδῳ, ἄλλοι τε εὐχωλὰσ ἐπιτελέοντεσ πλεῦνεσ χιλίων ἀνδρῶν, ἕκαστοι ἔχοντεσ ξύλα καὶ οὗτοι, ἐπὶ τὰ ἕτερα ἁλέεσ ἑστᾶσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 63 2:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν Τιθορεὺσ Ἀμφίονί τε Ζήθῳ τεχύτλα καὶ εὐχωλὰσ μειλίγματ’ ἐνὶ χθονὶ χεύῃθελγομένου ταύροιο κλυτοῦ μένει ἠελίοιο,καὶ τότε δὴ πεφύλαξο πόλει κακὸν οὐκ ἀλαπαδνόνἐρχόμενον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. a prayer

  2. a boast

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

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