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φθέγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθέγμα φθέγματος

Structure: φθεγματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. the sound of the voice, a voice
  2. language, speech
  3. a saying, word
  4. cries, roaring, grinding

Declension

Third 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

  • πᾶσ ^ δὲ ὁ τόνοσ τοῦ φθέγματοσ οἱο͂σ ἁπαλώτατοσ, οὔτε βαρὺσ ὡσ εἰσ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ἡρμόσθαι οὔτε πάνυ λεπτὸσ ὡσ θηλύτατόσ τε εἶναι καὶ κομιδῇ ἔκλυτοσ, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂σ γένοιτ’ ἂν παιδὶ μήπω ἡβάσκοντι, ἡδὺσ καὶ προσηνὴσ καὶ πράωσ παραδυόμενοσ εἰσ τὴν ἀκοήν, ὡσ καὶ παυσαμένησ ἔναυλον εἶναι τὴν βοὴν καί τι λείψανον ἐνδιατρίβειν καὶ περιβομβεῖν τὰ ὦτα, καθάπερ ἠχώ τινα παρατείνουσαν τὴν ἀκρόασιν καὶ ἴχνη τῶν λόγων μελιχρὰ ἄττα καὶ πειθοῦσ μεστὰ ἐπὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀπολιμπάνουσαν. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 13:3)
  • δέσποιν’ Ἀθάνα, φθέγματοσ γὰρ ᾐσθόμην τοῦ σοῦ συνήθη γῆρυν· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:7)
  • φαίη τοιγαροῦν ἂν πρὸσ σὲ ὧδέ πωσ ἐπισπασάμενοσ ὁπόσον ἔτι λοιπὸν τῆσ κόμησ καὶ ὑπομειδιάσασ τὸ γλαφυρὸν ἐκεῖνο καὶ ἁπαλὸν οἱο͂ν εἰώθεν, Αὐτοθαΐδα τὴν κωμικὴν ἢ Μαλθάκην ἢ Γλυκέραν τινὰ μιμησάμενοσ τῷ προσηνεῖ τοῦ φθέγματοσ· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 12:2)
  • ὦ γῆ τοῦ φθέγματοσ, ὡσ ἱερὸν καὶ σεμνὸν καὶ τερατῶδεσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests5)
  • οἱ δὲ νῷν τοῦ φθέγματοσ ἐάνπερ ἐπακούσωσι θεύσονται δρόμῳ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 5:40)

Synonyms

  1. the sound of the voice

  2. language

  3. a saying

Related

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

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