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μεγαλαυχία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλαυχία

Structure: μεγαλαυχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from mega/lauxos

Sense

  1. great boasting, arrogance

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

  • Καὶ τῶν βιαιοτέρων δὲ παθῶν ἐπικρατεῖν ὁ λογισμὸσ φαίνεται, φιλαρχίασ καὶ κενοδοξίασ καὶ ἀλαζονείασ καὶ μεγαλαυχίασ καὶ βασκανίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 2:15)
  • ἀλλὰ οὐ Σόλων γε ἐκεῖνοσ, ὦ Χάρων, ἐρᾶν αὐτοῦ φαίνεται, ὅσ, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, καταγελᾷ τοῦ Κροίσου καὶ τῆσ μεγαλαυχίασ τοῦ βαρβάρου, καί μοι δοκεῖν ἐρέσθαι τι βούλεται αὐτόν ἐπακούσωμεν οὖν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:13)
  • Οὐκοῦν, ἤν τι τοιοῦτον εἴπῃ, ἐσ τὸν ᾅδην ἐμπεσὼν τροχῷ ἄθλιοσ προσδεθεὶσ συμπεριενεχθήσεται μετ̓ αὐτοῦ ἀεὶ καὶ πόνον ἄπαυστον ἕξει δίκην διδοὺσ οὐ τοῦ ἔρωτοσ ‐ οὐ γὰρ δὴ δεινὸν τοῦτό γε ‐ ἀλλὰ τῆσ μεγαλαυχίασ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:7)
  • "ἐκεῖνα δ’ ἦν τὰ ἐν Φαίδρῳ δεινὰ καὶ ταρακτικὰ τῶν πραγμάτων, αὑτὸν οἰομένου δεῖν ἀναθεωρεῖν, εἴτε Τυφῶνόσ ἐστι θηρίον πολυπλοκώτερον καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπιτεθυμμένον εἴτε θείασ τινὸσ καὶ ἀτύφου μοίρασ φύσει μετέχον ἀλλὰ τούτοισ γε τοῖσ ἐπιλογισμοῖσ οὐ τὸν βίον ἀνῄρει, τὴν δ’ ἐμβροντησίαν ἐκ τοῦ βίου καὶ τὸν τῦφον ἐξήλαυνε καὶ τὰσ ἐπαχθεῖσ καὶ ὑπερόγκουσ κατοιήσεισ καὶ μεγαλαυχίασ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 217)
  • μάχεσθαι τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ τὰ μέσα καὶ κυριώτατα τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ περιεσπειραμένοσ ἐκαρτέρει τὰσ ἀπειλὰσ καὶ τὰσ μεγαλαυχίασ τῶν Θηβαίων, προκαλουμένων ἐκεῖνον ὀνομαστὶ καὶ διαμάχεσθαι περὶ τῆσ χώρασ κελευόντων, ὃσ τῶν κακῶν αἴτιόσ ἐστιν ἐκκαύσασ τὸν πόλεμον. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 31 3:1)

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

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