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λιχνεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιχνεία

Structure: λιχνει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from lixneu/w

Sense

  1. daintiness, greediness

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

  • "ἀεί ποτε ἐγώ, ἄνδρεσ φίλοι, τεθαύμακα τὸ τῶν δούλων γένοσ ὥσ ἐστιν ἐγκρατὲσ τοσαύταισ ἐγκαλινδούμενον λιχνείαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:5)
  • τοῦτο μέντοι, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, τὸ τῆσ τοιαύτησ φύσεωσ εἰ ἐκ παιδὸσ εὐθὺσ κοπτόμενον περιεκόπη τὰσ τῆσ γενέσεωσ συγγενεῖσ ὥσπερ μολυβδίδασ, αἳ δὴ ἐδωδαῖσ τε καὶ τοιούτων ἡδοναῖσ τε καὶ λιχνείαισ προσφυεῖσ γιγνόμεναι περὶ κάτω στρέφουσι τὴν τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὄψιν· (Plato, Republic, book 7 81:1)

Related

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

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