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φράσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φράσις φράσεως

Structure: φρασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. speech
  2. way of speaking, expression
  3. expression, idiom, phrase

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο ἐνδείξασθαι βουλόμενον, ὅτι τὰ τοιαῦτα ἁμαρτήματα ἐν ταῖσ κατασκευαῖσ εἰώθεν ἁμαρτάνειν, καὶ χείρων μὲν αὐτὸσ αὑτοῦ γίνεται, ὅταν τὸ μέγα διώκῃ καὶ περιττὸν ἐν τῇ φράσει, μακρῷ δέ τινι ἀμείνων, ὅταν τὴν ἰσχνὴν καὶ ἀκριβῆ καὶ δοκοῦσαν μὲν ἀποίητον εἶναι κατεσκευασμένην δὲ ἀμωμήτῳ καὶ ἀφελεῖ κατασκευῇ διάλεκτον εἰσφέρῃ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 7:2)
  • ἥκιστα γὰρ ἄν τισ εὑρ́οι Λυσίαν τροπικῇ φράσει χρησάμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 3 1:1)
  • ἢν μὲν ἐκσῴσῃσ γραφήν, αὐτὴν φράσει σιγῶσα τἀγγεγραμμένα· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:36)
  • τοὐμὸν μὲν οὖν δίκαιον ἐμὲ λέγειν χρεών, ἄλλοσ δ’ ὁ χρῄζων αὐτὸσ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ φράσει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode6)
  • ἀσαφὴσ γὰρ ἦν ἐν τῇ φράσει τῶν πραγμάτων. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene2)

Synonyms

  1. speech

  2. expression

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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