κάθαρσις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
κάθαρσις
καθάρσεως
Structure:
καθαρσι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- cleansing, purification (in a moral/spiritual sense)
- clarification, explanation
- purging, evacuation (in a medical sense)
- pruning trees, shearing grain, clearing land
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.
- "ταύταισ οὖν ἐστι τῶν μὲν πόρων οἰκειότατοσ ὁ διὰ τῆσ οὐρήσεωσ, τῶν δὲ καθάρσεων ἡ διὰ τῶν κωθωνισμῶν πρέπει μάλιστα, κατανίζεται γὰρ τὸ σῶμα τοῖσ οἴνοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 675)
- διὸ δὴ τῶν καθάρσεων καὶ συστάσεων τοῦ σώματοσ ἡ μὲν διὰ τῶν γυμνασίων ἀρίστη, δευτέρα δὲ ἡ διὰ τῶν αἰωρήσεων κατά τε τοὺσ πλοῦσ καὶ ὅπῃπερ ἂν ὀχήσεισ ἄκοποι γίγνωνται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 470:3)
- καὶ μὴν τά γε περὶ τὰ σώματα πολλὰ εἴδη καθάρσεων ἑνὶ περιλαβεῖν ὀνόματι προσήκει. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 65:4)
- μόνον ἐχέτω χωρὶσ τῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ καθάρσεων πάντα συνδῆσαν ὅσα ἄλλο τι καθαίρει. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 69:1)
- διὰ ταῦτα δὴ πάντα ἡμῖν, ὦ Θεαίτητε, καὶ τὸν ἔλεγχον λεκτέον ὡσ ἄρα μεγίστη καὶ κυριωτάτη τῶν καθάρσεών ἐστι, καὶ τὸν ἀνέλεγκτον αὖ νομιστέον, ἂν καὶ τυγχάνῃ βασιλεὺσ ὁ μέγασ ὤν, τὰ μέγιστα ἀκάθαρτον ὄντα, ἀπαίδευτόν τε καὶ αἰσχρὸν γεγονέναι ταῦτα ἃ καθαρώτατον καὶ κάλλιστον ἔπρεπε τὸν ὄντωσ ἐσόμενον εὐδαίμονα εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 87:1)
Synonyms
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cleansing
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purging