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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

  • ἄγαμαι λήματοσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 22)
  • ἕτερον αὖ τι λῆμα τοῦτο κομψότερον ἔτ’ ἢ τὸ πρότερον ἀναπέφηνεν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 21)
  • 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)
  • ὡσ ἐσ τὸ λῆμα παντὸσ ἦν ἥσσων ἀνήρ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:37)
  • νῦν δή σε πάντα δεῖ κάλων ἐξιέναι σεαυτοῦ, καὶ λῆμα θούριον φορεῖν καὶ λόγουσ ἀφύκτουσ ὅτοισι τόνδ’ ὑπερβαλεῖ. (Aristotle, Agon, strophe1)
  • ἔστι δ’ αἱμυλώτατον κρότημ’ Ὀδυσσεύσ, λῆμά τ’ ἀρκούντωσ θρασὺσ καὶ πλεῖστα χώραν τήνδ’ ἀνὴρ καθυβρίσασ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:9)
  • λῆμα μὲν πάρεστι τῷδέ γ’ οὐκ ἄτολμον ἀλλ’ ἕτοιμον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, lyric1)

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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