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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

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 οὐαί̣ τίνι θόρυβοσ̣ τίνι κρίσεισ̣ τίνι δὲ ἀηδίαι καὶ λέσχαι̣ τίνι συντρίμματα διακενῆσ̣ τίνοσ πελιδνοὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοί̣ (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 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)
  • 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

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

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