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μεγαληγορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαληγορία

Structure: μεγαληγορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from megalh/goros

Sense

  1. big talking

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

  • ὥστε ἀφρονεστέρα αὐτοῦ φαίνεται εἶναι ἡ μεγαληγορία. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 2:5)
  • ἀποπνίξεισ γὰρ εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι τὸν Ὅμηρον κατελθὼν ἐπὶ τῇ μεγαληγορίᾳ τῶν ἐπῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 23:10)

Related

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

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