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μεγαλόνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλόνοια

Structure: μεγαλονοι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from megalo/nous

Sense

  1. greatness of intellect

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

  • ἥ τε γὰρ μεγαλόνοια θαυμαστὴ καὶ ἡ καλλιφωνία δεινῶσ Ἀττικὴ καὶ τὸ κεχαρισμένον καὶ πειθοῦσ μεστὸν ἥ τε σύνεσισ καὶ τὸ ἀκριβὲσ καὶ τὸ ἐπαγωγὸν ἐν καιρῷ τῶν ἀποδείξεων, πάντα ταῦτά σοι ἀθρόα πρόσεστιν ὥστε τὴν προηγορίαν δέχου καὶ ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων εἰπὲ τὰ εἰκότα. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 22:5)
  • ἀλαζόνα καὶ γελοῖον φήσασ ἐν πᾶσιν, ὑπὸ τούτου φησίν, αἰχμαλώτου γενομένου, καὶ παιδαγωγεῖσθαι καὶ νουθετεῖσθαι τὸν Κῦρον, ὃσ φρονήσει καὶ ἀρετῇ καὶ μεγαλονοίᾳ πολὺ πάντων δοκεῖ πεπρωτευκέναι τῶν βασιλέων· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 18 1:1)

Related

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

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