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ἐχεμυθία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐχεμυθία

Structure: ἐχεμυθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)xe/mu_qos

Sense

  1. silence, reserve

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐχεμυθία ἐχεμυθίᾱ ἐχεμυθίαι
Genitive ἐχεμυθίᾱς ἐχεμυθίαιν ἐχεμυθιῶν
Dative ἐχεμυθίᾱͅ ἐχεμυθίαιν ἐχεμυθίαις
Accusative ἐχεμυθίᾱν ἐχεμυθίᾱ ἐχεμυθίᾱς
Vocative ἐχεμυθίᾱ ἐχεμυθίᾱ ἐχεμυθίαι

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

  • τῇ μὲν οὖν πολυμαθείᾳ τὴν πολυλογίαν ἕπεσθαι συμβαίνει διὸ καὶ Πυθαγόρασ ἔταξε τοῖσ νέοισ πενταετῆ σιωπήν, ἐχεμυθίαν προσαγορεύσασ, τῇ δὲ περιεργίᾳ τὴν κακολογίαν ἀνάγκη συνακολουθεῖν ἃ γὰρ ἡδέωσ ἀκούουσιν ἡδέωσ λαλοῦσι, καὶ ἃ παρ’ ἄλλων σπουδῇ συλλέγουσι πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ μετὰ χαρᾶσ ἐκφέρουσιν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 91)
  • διὸ καὶ Πυθαγόρασ ἔταξε τοῖσ νέοισ πενταέτιδα σιωπήν, ἐχεμυθίαν προσαγορεύσασ. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 9 1:1)
  • ἢ διὰ τὴν ἐχεμυθίαν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 80 3:1)
  • ὅπερ εἶναι δοκεῖ τὴν Πυθαγόρειον ἀπομνημονεύοντοσ ἐχεμυθίαν καὶ τιμῶντοσ. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 8 6:2)
  • "εἰ δὲ ταῦτα τῶν ὑπὸ τὴν ἐχεμυθίαν ἐστίν, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνό γε δοκῶ μήτ’ ἄρρητον εἶναι μήτ’ ἀνέξοιστον πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ, ὅτι δὴ μάλιστα τῶν ἰχθύων ἀπείχοντο· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. silence

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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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