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μεγαλοφωνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλοφωνία

Structure: μεγαλοφωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. grandiloquence

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

  • ἀπαιτοῦσι δὲ καὶ λόγον ἑκάστου μαθήματοσ, ἅμα καὶ μεγαλοφωνίαν καὶ πνεῦμα καὶ πλευρὰν ἀσκοῦντεσ, καὶ πρὸσ καῦμα δὲ καὶ πρὸσ ψῦχοσ καὶ ὄμβρουσ καὶ χειμάρρων διαβάσεισ ὥστ’ ἄβροχα φυλάττειν καὶ ὅπλα καὶ ἐσθῆτα, καὶ ποιμαίνειν δὲ καὶ ἀγραυλεῖν καὶ καρποῖσ ἀγρίοισ χρῆσθαι, τερμίνθῳ δρυοβαλάνοισ ἀχράδι. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 36:4)

Related

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

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