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λέσχη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: leschē

Principal Part: λέσχη

Structure: λεσχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: λέγω3

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 λέσχα λέσχαι
Genitive λέσχης λέσχαιν λεσχῶν
Dative λέσχῃ λέσχαιν λέσχαις
Accusative λέσχην λέσχα λέσχας
Vocative λέσχη λέσχα 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

  • τίνι οὐαί; τίνι θόρυβος; τίνι κρίσεις; τίνι δὲ ἀηδίαι καὶ λέσχαι; τίνι συντρίμματα διακενῆς; τίνος πελιδνοὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοί; (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 23:29)
  • καὶ δὴ παρακεκλήσθω Πολύγνωτος καὶ Εὐφράνωρ ἐκεῖνος καὶ Ἀπελλῆς καὶ Αἐτίων οὗτοι δὲ διελόμενοι τὸ ἔργον ὁ μὲν Εὐφράνωρ χρωσάτω τὴν κόμην οἱάν τῆς Ἥρας ἔγραψεν, ὁ Πολύγνωτος δὲ ὀφρύων τὸ ἐπιπρεπὲς καὶ παρειῶν τὸ ἐνερευθὲς οἱάν τὴν Κασάνδραν ἐν τῇ λέσχῃ ἐποίησεν τοῖς Δελφοῖς, καὶ ἐσθῆτα δὲ οὗτος ποιησάτω εἰς τὸ λεπτότατον ἐξειργασμένην, ὡς συνεστάλθαι μὲν ὅσα χρή, διηνεμῶσθαι δὲ τὰ πολλά: (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 7:7)
  • πὰρ δ ἴθι χάλκειον θῶκον καὶ ἐπαλέα λέσχην ὡρ´ῃ 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)
  • ἐλπὶς δ οὐκ ἀγαθὴ κεχρημένον ἄνδρα κομίζει, ἥμενον ἐν λέσχῃ, τῷ μὴ βίος ἄρκιος εἰή. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 56:3)
  • "τὸ γὰρ ἐν λέσχαις ταῖσδε τοιαῦτα ποιεῖν ἀπρεπές β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5251)
  • τὸ δὲ Πλάτωνος συμπόσιον οὐ συνέδριόν ἐστιν, οὐ βουλευτήριον, οὐ λέσχη φιλοσόφων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 18 3:1)
  • εἶπέ τις, Ἡράκλειτε, τεὸν μόρον, ἐς δέ με δάκρυ ἤγαγεν, ἐμνήσθην δ ὁσσάκις ἀμφότεροι ἥλιον ἐν λέσχῃ κατεδύσαμεν ἀλλὰ σὺ μέν που, ξεῖν Ἁλικαρνησεῦ, τετράπαλαι σποδιή: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 801)
  • εἶπέ τις, Ἡράκλειτε, τεὸν μόρον, ἐς δ ἐμὲ δάκρυ ἤγαγεν, ἐμνήσθην δ ὁσσάκις ἀμφότεροι ἥλιον ἐν λέσχῃ κατεδύσαμεν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. a'. HRAKLEITOS 17:5)

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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