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λέσχη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέσχη

Structure: λεσχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw3

Sense

  1. a place where people assembled to talk and hear news, a lounge, club-room, a council-hall, council
  2. talk or gossip, conversation, discussion

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λέσχη λέσχᾱ λέσχαι
Genitive λέσχης λέσχαιν λεσχῶν
Dative λέσχῃ λέσχαιν λέσχαις
Accusative λέσχην λέσχᾱ λέσχᾱς
Vocative λέσχη λέσχᾱ λέσχαι

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

  • στρατὸσ γὰρ ἀθρόοσ, ἀργὸσ ὢν τῶν οἴκοθεν, λέσχασ πονηρὰσ καὶ κακοστόμουσ φιλεῖ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 3:8)
  • ἄνδρα δὲ Κυρηναῖον ἔσω πόθοσ ἔσπασεν ’Ἰσθμοῦ δεινόσ, ὅτ’ Ἀπιδανῆσ Λαίδοσ ἠράσατο ὀξὺσ Ἀρίστιπποσ, πάσασ δ’ ἠνήνατο λέσχασ φεύγων, οὐδαμινόν τ’ ἐξεφόρησε βίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 12:2)
  • χοροὶ δὲ καὶ θαλίαι καὶ εὐωχίαι καὶ διατριβαὶ περί τε θήρασ καὶ γυμνάσια καὶ λέσχασ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐπέχωρίαζον, ὅτε μὴ στρατευόμενοι τύχοιεν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 24 4:2)
  • τοῖσ δὲ πρεσβυτέροισ αἰσχρὸν ἦν συνεχῶσ ὁρᾶσθαι περὶ ταῦτα διατρίβουσιν, ἀλλὰ μὴ τὸ πλεῖστον τῆσ ἡμέρασ περὶ τὰ γυμνάσια καὶ τᾶσ καλουμένασ λέσχασ ἀναστρέφεσθαι. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 25 1:2)
  • Ζεὺσ δ’ αἱμοσταγὲσ ἀξιόμισον ἔθνοσ τόδε λέσχασ ἇσ ἀπηξιώσατο. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. talk or gossip

Similar forms

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

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