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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λῆμα λήματε λήματα
Genitive λήματος λημάτοιν λημάτων
Dative λήματι λημάτοιν λήμασιν*
Accusative λῆμα λήματε λήματα
Vocative λῆμα λήματε λήματα

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

  • ἄγαμαι λήματοσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 22)
  • ἐν τούτοισ οὐ μέμφομαι τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦ λήματοσ γενναία γὰρ ἡ διάνοια καὶ δυναμένη κινῆσαι πάθοσ, τὸ δὲ τῆσ λέξεωσ λεῖον καὶ μαλακὸν αἰτιῶμαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 5:2)
  • δοκῶ μὲν οὖν σφε μηδὲ προσβαλεῖν πύλαισ οὐχ ὡσ ἄθυμοσ οὐδὲ λήματοσ κάκῇ, ἀλλ’ οἶδεν ὥσ σφε χρὴ τελευτῆσαι μάχῃ, εἰ καρπὸσ ἔσται θεσφάτοισι Λοξίου· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 3:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δαίμων λήματοσ ἐν τροπαίᾳ χρονίᾳ μεταλ‐ λακτὸσ ἴσωσ ἂν ἔλθοι θελεμωτέρῳ πνεύματι· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • τίν γε μέν, εὐθρόνου Κλεοῦσ ἐθελοίσασ, ἀεθλοφόρου λήματοσ ἕνεκεν Νεμέασ Ἐπιδαυρόθεν τ’ ἄπο καὶ Μεγάρων δέδορκεν φάοσ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 3 26:3)

Synonyms

  1. will

  2. temper of mind

  3. insolence

Related

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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