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ἡδονή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡδονή ἡδονῆς

Structure: ἡδον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: h(/domai

Sense

  1. delight, pleasure, enjoyment
  2. taste, smell, flavor
  3. (in plural): desires

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

  • ἐλπίδεσ, ὦ Χάρων, καὶ δείματα καὶ ἄγνοιαι καὶ ἡδοναὶ καὶ φιλαργυρίαι καὶ ὀργαὶ καὶ μίση καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 15:5)
  • ὅσοι δὲ μὴ θάνοιεν ἐν μάχῃ Φρυγῶν, ἀεὶ κατ’ ἦμαρ σὺν δάμαρτι καὶ τέκνοισ ᾤκουν, Ἀχαιοῖσ ὧν ἀπῆσαν ἡδοναί. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:3)
  • πονηροῦ φωτὸσ ἡδοναὶ κακαί. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:11)
  • "οὕτω γὰρ καὶ αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι καὶ αἱ ἡδοναὶ πολλῷ μείζουσ καὶ σφοδρότεραι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 103)
  • "οὔτε γὰρ ἡμεῖσ ἐσμεν οὔτ’ ἄλλοισ χρώμενοι ζῶμεν ἀλλὰ θάρρει, φαίη τισ ἄν, ὦ φίλον Κωλωτάριον, οὐδείσ σε κωλύει σπουδάζειν ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ, διδάσκων ὅτι Κωλώτου φύσισ αὐτὸσ ὁ Κωλώτησ ἐστὶν ἄλλο δ’ οὐδέν, οὐδὲ χρῆσθαι τοῖσ πράγμασι τὰ δὲ πράγματα ὑμῖν ἡδοναὶ εἰσιν ὑποδεικνύων, ὡσ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀμήτων φύσισ οὐδ’ ὀσμῶν οὐδὲ πλησιάσεωσ, ἄμητεσ δ’ εἰσὶ καὶ μύρα καὶ γυναῖκεσ ὁ γραμματικόσ, τόβίην Ἡρακληείην’ αὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν Ἡρακλέα, ἀναιρεῖ τὸν Ἡρακλέα, οὐδ’ οἱ τὰσ συμφωνίασ καὶ τὰσ δοκώσεισ ἐκφορὰσ μόνον εἶναι φάσκοντεσ οὐχὶ καὶ φθόγγουσ καὶ δοκοὺσ ὑπάρχειν λέγουσιν· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 115)

Synonyms

  1. delight

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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