Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • πὰρ δ’ ἴθι χάλκειον θῶκον καὶ ἐπαλέα λέσχην ὡρ́ῃ χειμερίῃ, ὁπότε κρύοσ ἀνέρα ἔργων ἰσχάνει, ἔνθα κ’ ἀόκνοσ ἀνὴρ μέγα οἶκον ὀφέλλοι, μή σε κακοῦ χειμῶνοσ ἀμηχανίη καταμάρψῃ σὺν πενίῃ, λεπτῇ δὲ παχὺν πόδα χειρὶ πιέζῃσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 56:1)
  • "τί δήποτε Χαλκιδεῖσ τὸν περὶ τὸ Πυρσόφιον τόπον ἀκμαίων λέσχην καλοῦσι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 331)
  • "τί δήποτε Χαλκιδεῖσ τὸν περὶ τὸ Πυρσόφιον τόπον ἀκμαίων λέσχην καλοῦσι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 331)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅδε γὰρ δὴ βασιλεὺσ χώρασ, Κρέων ὁ Μενοικέωσ ἄρχων νεοχμὸσ νεαραῖσι θεῶν ἐπὶ συντυχίαισ χωρεῖ, τίνα δὴ μῆτιν ἐρέσσων, ὅτι σύγκλητον τήνδε γερόντων προὔθετο λέσχην, κοινῷ κηρύγματι πέμψασ; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests1)
  • "ξεῖνε τάλαν, σύ γέ τισ φρένασ ἐκπεπαταγμένοσ ἐσσί, οὐδ’ ἐθέλεισ εὕδειν χαλκήϊον ἐσ δόμον ἐλθών, ἠέ που ἐσ λέσχην, ἀλλ’ ἐνθάδε πόλλ’ ἀγορεύεισ, θαρσαλέωσ πολλοῖσι μετ’ ἀνδράσιν, οὐδέ τι θυμῷ ταρβεῖσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 52:1)

Synonyms

  1. talk or gossip

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

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