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μανίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μανίᾱ μανίας

Structure: μανι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nomai

Sense

  1. madness, frenzy, enthusiasm
  2. mad desire, compulsion

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

  • μανίαι τε, μητρὸσ αἵματοσ τιμωρίαι. (Euripides, episode, iambic 3:22)
  • "ἑορτὰσ δὲ καὶ θυσίασ, ὥσπερ ἡμέρασ ἀποφράδασ καὶ σκυθρωπάσ, ἐν αἷσ ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοὶ νηστεῖαί τε καὶ κοπετοί, πολλαχοῦ δὲ πάλιν αἰσχρολογίαι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινόμεναι ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ, θεῶν μὲν οὐδενὶ δαιμόνων δὲ φαύλων ἀποτροπῆσ ἕνεκα φήσαιμ’ ἂν τελεῖσθαι μειλίχια καὶ παραμύθια. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 142)
  • ἐλελεῦ ἐλελεῦ, ὑπό μ’ αὖ σφάκελοσ καὶ φρενοπληγεῖσ μανίαι θάλπουσ’, οἴστρου δ’ ἄρδισ χρίει μ’ ἄπυροσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests1)
  • ἀπροσίκτων δ’ ἐρώτων ὀξύτεραι μανίαι. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 11 15:3)
  • εὖτε ἐπὶ μὲν ξανθῇ χολῇ, μανίαι γίγνονται· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσι μέλασι, μελαγχολίη · ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ φλέγματι, ἡ ἐπιληψίη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 20)

Synonyms

  1. mad desire

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