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καινότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 기독교 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καινότης καινότητος

Structure: καινοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kaino/s

Sense

  1. newness, freshness
  2. novelty
  3. (biblical, Christianity) the new state of eternal life given by the Holy Spirit

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

  • ἡ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ σχηματισμοῖσ καινότησ τε καὶ πολυτροπία καὶ ἡ ἐξαλλαγὴ τῆσ συνήθουσ χρήσεωσ, ἐν ᾗ μάλιστα διαφέρειν αὐτὸν ἡγούμεθα τῶν ἄλλων, ἐπὶ τούτων γίγνεται τῶν ἔργων φανερά· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 3 1:2)
  • οὐδ̓ ἂν ὠφελήσειεν αὐτό, παρὰ γοῦν ἐμοί, ἡ καινότησ, μὴ οὐχὶ συντετρῖφθαι ἄμορφον ὄν. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 8:1)
  • ὥστε ὁ Πτολεμαῖοσ συνεὶσ ὅτι οὐκ εὐδοκιμεῖ ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ οὐδὲ θαυμάζεται ὑπὸ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἡ καινότησ, ἀλλὰ πρὸ αὐτῆσ τὸ εὔρυθμον καὶ τὸ εὔμορφον κρίνουσι, μετέστησεν αὐτὰ καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐκέτι διὰ τιμῆσ ἦγεν ὡσ πρὸ τοῦ· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 10:4)
  • "ὥστε ἐπεὶ μεγάλην ἔχει δύναμιν ἡ καινότησ πρὸσ τὸ μείζω φανῆναι τὴν ἡδονήν, οὐκ ὀλιγωρητέον,6 ἀλλὰ πολλὴν ἐπιμέλειαν αὐτῆσ ποιητέον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 64 1:6)
  • πολλὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ τῶν κώλων ἀσυμμετρία πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ ἡ τῶν περιόδων ἀνωμαλία καὶ ἡ τῶν σχημάτων καινότησ καὶ τὸ τῆσ ἀκολουθίασ ὑπεροπτικὸν καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα χαρακτηρικὰ τῆσ ἀκομψεύτου τε καὶ αὐστηρᾶσ ἐπελογισάμην ὄντα ἁρμονίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2292)

Synonyms

  1. newness

  2. novelty

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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