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καλλώπισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλώπισμα καλλώπισματος

Structure: καλλωπισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from kallwpi/zw

Sense

  1. ornament, embellishment

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

  • ὀχληρὰ δὲ κἀκεῖνα τὰ μειρακιώδη καλλωπίσματα τῆσ λέξεωσ καὶ τὰ πολύπλοκα τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων σχήματα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 461)
  • τρυφὴ καὶ ἀκολασία καὶ ἐλευθερία, ἐὰν ἐπικουρίαν ἔχῃ, τοῦτ’ ἐστὶν ἀρετή τε καὶ εὐδαιμονία, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν τὰ καλλωπίσματα, τὰ παρὰ φύσιν συνθήματα ἀνθρώπων, φλυαρία καὶ οὐδενὸσ ἄξια. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 276:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀγανακτῶν καὶ ἡγούμενοσ εἶναι τάδε καλλωπίσματα, τὸ δ’ ἀληθὲσ ἀποκλείεσθαι πρὸσ τῶν Καίσαροσ φρουρῶν γνώμῃ Καίσαροσ, διετάφρευε τῆσ πόλεωσ τὸν ἰσθμὸν καὶ ἀπετείχιζεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 6 7:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐκεῖνα μὲν τὰ καλλωπίσματα καὶ δαπάνησ καὶ χρόνου καὶ τῆσ παρὰ τῶν βαναύσων βοηθείασ προσδεῖται, τοῦτο δ’ ἐν μέσῳ πᾶσι πρόκειται τοῖσ δυνατοῖσ ἰδεῖν καὶ οὐδὲν δεῖ πραγματείασ, ἀλλ’ ἀπόχρη βουληθεῖσιν ἔχειν τἀγαθόν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 19:11)

Synonyms

  1. ornament

Related

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

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