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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

  • τὸ γὰρ παράδειγμα τῶν μανιῶν ἀκούετε· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 2:11)
  • ἃσ ὦ θεὰ μή ποτ’ ἐγὼ πιμπραμένασ ἴδοιμι, ἀλλὰ πολέμου καὶ μανιῶν ῥυσαμένασ Ἑλλάδα καὶ πολίτασ, ἐφ’ οἷσπερ ὦ χρυσολόφα πολιοῦχε σὰσ ἔσχον ἕδρασ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, antistrophe 32)
  • ἢν γὰρ θεᾶσ κατάσχωμεν βρέτασ, μανιῶν τε λήξω καὶ σὲ πολυκώπῳ σκάφει στείλασ Μυκήναισ ἐγκαταστήσω πάλιν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:8)
  • κελεύε[ι γὰρ ἐξεῖν]αι τὰ ἑαυτοῦ [δια]τίθεσθα[ι ὅπωσ ἄν] τισ βούληται πλὴν [ἢ γή]ρωσ ἕνε[κεν] ἢ νόσου ἢ μανιῶν ἢ γυ[ναικὶ] πειθόμ[ενο]ν ἢ [ὑπὸ] δεσμοῦ ἢ ὑ[πὸ ἀνά]γκησ κ[ατ]αληφθ[έντ]α. (Hyperides, Speeches, 17:2)
  • σὺ δ’ ἐσ τοσοῦτον τῶν μανιῶν ἐλήλυθασ ὥστ’ ἀνδράσιν πείθει χολῶσιν; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics23)

Synonyms

  1. mad desire

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