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καύχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: καύχημα καύχηματος

Structure: καυχηματ (Stem)

Etym.: kauxa/omai

Sense

  1. a boast, vaunt
  2. a subject of boasting

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

  • ἐνέδυσεν αὐτὸν συντέλειαν καυχήματοσ καὶ ἐστερέωσεν αὐτὸν σκεύεσιν ἰσχύοσ, περισκελῆ καὶ ποδήρη καὶ ἐπωμίδα, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 45:8)
  • ἐν τῷ ἀναλαμβάνειν αὐτὸν στολὴν δόξησ καὶ ἐνδιδύσκεσθαι αὐτὸν συντέλειαν καυχήματοσ, ἐν ἀναβάσει θυσιαστηρίου ἁγίου ἐδόξασε περιβολὴν ἁγιάσματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 50:11)
  • οὐ πάλιν ἑαυτοὺσ συνιστάνομεν ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ ἀφορμὴν διδόντεσ ὑμῖν καυχήματοσ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ἵνα ἔχητε πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν προσώπῳ καυχωμένουσ καὶ μὴ ἐν καρδίᾳ. (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 1 101:1)

Synonyms

  1. a boast

  2. a subject of boasting

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

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