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μάθησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάθησις μαθήσεως

Structure: μαθησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: manqa/nw

Sense

  1. the act of learning, getting of knowledge
  2. desire for learning
  3. education, instruction

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

  • πάσησ γὰρ τέχνησ ἀνάγκη προάγειν μάθησιν πόνον φόβον πληγάσ, ἅπερ οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστισ οὐκ ἂν ἀπεύξαιτο ταύτην· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 13:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ χρόνοσ μάθησιν ἀντὶ τοῦ τάχουσ κρείσσω δίδωσι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:10)
  • ἡ δ’ εὐανδρία διδακτόσ, εἴπερ καὶ βρέφοσ διδάσκεται λέγειν ἀκούειν θ’ ὧν μάθησιν οὐκ ἔχει. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:14)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ὁ λέγων ὅτι δεῖ κώπην ἐλαύνειν μαθόντα κυβερνᾶν δὲ καὶ μὴ μαθόντα γελοῖόσ ἐστιν, οὕτωσ ὁ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀπολείπων τεχνῶν μάθησιν, ἀρετῆσ δ’ ἀναιρῶν τοὐναντίον ἐοίκε τοῖσ Σκύθαισ ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 33)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ὁ λέγων ὅτι δεῖ κώπην ἐλαύνειν μαθόντα κυβερνᾶν δὲ καὶ μὴ μαθόντα γελοῖόσ ἐστιν, οὕτωσ ὁ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀπολείπων τεχνῶν μάθησιν ἀρετῆσ δ’ ἀναιρῶν τοὐναντίον ἐοίκε τοῖσ Σκύθαισ ποιεῖν· (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. desire for learning

  2. education

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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