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εὐψυχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐψυχία

Structure: εὐψυχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/yu_xos

Sense

  1. good courage, high spirit

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐψυχία εὐψυχίᾱ εὐψυχίαι
Genitive εὐψυχίᾱς εὐψυχίαιν εὐψυχιῶν
Dative εὐψυχίᾱͅ εὐψυχίαιν εὐψυχίαις
Accusative εὐψυχίᾱν εὐψυχίᾱ εὐψυχίᾱς
Vocative εὐψυχίᾱ εὐψυχίᾱ εὐψυχίαι

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

  • μιμήσασθέ με, ἀδελφοί, λέγων, μή μου τὸν αἰῶνα λιποτακτήσητε μηδ’ ἐξομόσησθέ μου τὴν τῆσ εὐψυχίασ ἀδελφότητα. ἱερὰν καὶ εὐγενῆ στρατείαν στρατεύσασθε ὑπὲρ τῆσ εὐσεβείασ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:23)
  • ὃσ ἔσχε δόξαν οὐδὲν ὢν εὐψυχίασ θηρῶν ἐν αἰχμῇ, τἄλλα δ’ οὐδὲν ἄλκιμοσ, ὃσ οὔποτ’ ἀσπίδ’ ἔσχε πρὸσ λαιᾷ χερὶ οὐδ’ ἦλθε λόγχησ ἐγγύσ, ἀλλὰ τόξ’ ἔχων, κάκιστον ὅπλον, τῇ φυγῇ πρόχειροσ ἦν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode12)
  • ἀνδρὸσ δ’ ἔλεγχοσ οὐχὶ τόξ’ εὐψυχίασ, ἀλλ’ ὃσ μένων βλέπει τε κἀντιδέρκεται δορὸσ ταχεῖαν ἄλοκα τάξιν ἐμβεβώσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode13)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ τοῦτο τὸ καλόν, εἰ καλὸν τόδε, αἱρήσομαι ’γὼ πρόσθε τῆσ εὐψυχίασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 10:6)
  • οἱ γοῦν ἔριν ἔχοντεσ εὐψυχίασ ἀεὶ καὶ ἀρετῆσ πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἐν οἷσ ἐλείποντο, τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ ᾐτιῶντο ῥώμην ἄτρεπτον οὖσαν καὶ πρὸσ μηδένα πόνον ἀπαγορεύουσαν. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 2 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. good courage

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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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