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μανότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μανότης μανότητος

Structure: μανοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. looseness of texture, porousness
  2. fewness, scantiness

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

  • ψύχεται γὰρ ἡ πνσὴ πιεσθεῖσα καὶ πυκνωθεῖσα τοῖσ χείλεσιν , ἀνειμένου δὲ τοῦ στόματοσ ἐκπίπτουσα γίγνεται θερμὸν ὑπὸ μανότητοσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 7 6:1)
  • "πρὸσ πᾶσαν μὲν γάρ ἐστι ποιότητα καὶ δύναμιν εὐκέραστοσ ὑπὸ μανότητοσ, μάλιστα δὲ φωτὸσ ἂν ἐπιψαύσῃ μόνον, ὥσ φατε, καὶ θίγῃ, δι’ ὅλου· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 5 1:16)
  • "λέγουσι δὲ τοῦ αἰθέροσ τὸ μὲν αὐγοειδὲσ καὶ λεπτὸν ὑπὸ μανότητοσ οὐρανὸν γεγονέναι, τὸ δὲ πυκνωθὲν καὶ συνειληθὲν ἄστρα· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 1510)
  • "ἡμῖν, εἰ μὴ στέγει μηδ’ ἀντιφράττει τὸν ἥλιον ἀλλὰ διίησιν ὑπὸ μανότητοσ ἢ κατὰ σύγκρασιν εἰσλάμπει; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 16 2:13)
  • τὸ δὲ ἀληθὲσ ἡ περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια ἀκολασία κατὰ τὸ πολὺ μέροσ διὰ τὴν ἑνὸσ γένουσ ἕξιν ὑπὸ μανότητοσ ὀστῶν ἐν σώματι ῥυώδη καὶ ὑγραίνουσαν νόσοσ ψυχῆσ γέγονεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 454:1)

Synonyms

  1. fewness

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

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