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λῆμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῆμα λῆματος

Structure: ληματ (Stem)

Etym.: la/w2

Sense

  1. will, desire, resolve, purpose, mind
  2. temper of mind, spirit
  3. courage, resolution
  4. insolence, arrogance, audacity

Declension

Third 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

  • ὃσ ἀδίκῳ γνώμᾳ παρανόμῳ τ’ ὀργᾷ περὶ <σὰ> Βάκχι’, ὄργια ματρόσ τε σᾶσ μανείσᾳ πραπίδι παρακόπῳ τε λήματι στέλλεται, τἀνίκατον ὡσ κρατήσων βίᾳ, γνωμᾶν σωφρόνα θάνατοσ ἀπροφάσι‐ στοσ ἐσ τὰ θεῶν ἔφυ· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • τοῦτο γράφοντεσ ἐνεχάραξαν τόνδε ποθ’ Ἕλληνεσ Νίκησ κράτει, ἔργῳ Ἄρηοσ, εὐτόλμῳ ψυχῆσ λήματι πειθόμενοι, Πέρσασ ἐξελάσαντεσ, ἐλευθέρᾳ Ἑλλάδι κοινὸν ἱδρύσαντο Διὸσ βωμὸν Ἐλευθερίου; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 42 20:1)
  • "λήματι μὲν καὶ ῥώμῃ οὐκ ἥσσονεσ ἦσαν· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 43 5:1)
  • Βαβυλὼν δ’ ἡ πολύχρυσοσ πάμμικτον ὄχλον πέμπει σύρδην, ναῶν τ’ ἐπόχουσ καὶ τοξουλκῷ λήματι πιστούσ· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests 1:3)
  • Ἄνδρεσ τοί ποτ’ ἔναιον ὑπὸ κροτάφοισ Ἑλικῶνοσ, λήματι τῶν αὐχεῖ Θεσπιὰσ εὐρύχοροσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 8)

Synonyms

  1. will

  2. temper of mind

  3. insolence

Related

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

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