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κερδοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κερδοσύνη

Structure: κερδοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. cunning, craft, by craft, cunningly

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

  • αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺσ ἕζετο κερδοσύνῃ, σκῆπτρον δὲ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρόσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 15 4:1)
  • ὁππότε καὶ τοῦτόν τισ ἐμὸν περικαλλέα τύμβον σκάψεν ἀτασθαλέων εἵνεκα κερδοσύνησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 176 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ κερδοσύνῃ ἀλέεινεν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 27:12)
  • αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺσ ἕζετο κερδοσύνη, σκῆπτρον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρόσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 3:3)
  • ὣσ φαμένη καὶ κερδοσύνῃ ἡγήσατ’ Ἀθήνη· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. cunning

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

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