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καινουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καινουργία

Structure: καινουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kainourgo/s

Sense

  1. innovation

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

  • οἰέται δὲ δεῖν οὐ τοὺσ κακῶσ πράττοντασ εἰρήνησ ἐπιθυμεῖν, οἷσ ἐκ τῆσ καινουργίασ ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον μεταβάλλειν τὰ πράγματα ἐλπίσ, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ εὐτυχοῦντασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 9 2:2)
  • πολλῆσ δὲ καὶ ζωγράφοι καὶ πλάσται τῆσ εἰσ τοῦτο παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀπέλαυσαν ἐξουσίασ, αὐτὸσ ἕκαστόσ τινα μορφὴν ἐπινοῶν, ὁ μὲν ἐκ πηλοῦ πλάττων, ὁ δὲ γράφων, οἱ δὲ μάλιστα δὴ θαυμαζόμενοι τῶν δημιουργῶν τὸν ἐλέφαντα καὶ τὸν χρυσὸν ἔχουσι τῆσ ἀεὶ καινουργίασ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 222:1)
  • ἔλασμα γὰρ χρυσοῦ τὸ πλάτοσ τεσσάρων δακτύλων ποιήσαντεσ καθ’ ὅλου τοῦ τῆσ τραπέζησ πλάτουσ εἰσ τοῦτο τοὺσ πόδασ αὐτῆσ ἐνέθεσαν, ἔπειτα περόναισ καὶ κατακλεῖσιν αὐτοὺσ ἐνέσφιγγον τῇ τραπέζῃ κατὰ τὴν στεφάνην, ἵνα τὴν θέαν τῆσ καινουργίασ καὶ πολυτελείασ, ἐφ’ ᾧ τισ ἂν στήσῃ τὴν τράπεζαν μέρει, παρέχωσι τὴν αὐτήν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 82:1)

Synonyms

  1. innovation

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

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