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μελέτη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελέτη μελέτης

Structure: μελετ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: me/lw

Sense

  1. care, attention
  2. practice, exercise

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

  • μαχόμενοσ καὶ ὀνειδίζων ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτούσ. οὐ σὺ ἦσθα ὁ μελετῶν τῷ πνεύματι τῷ σκληρῷ ἀνελεῖν αὐτοὺσ πνεύματι θυμοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 27:8)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴσ αἰζηὸσ ἕποιτο ἄρτον δειπνήσασ τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμον, ὃσ ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κ’ αὔλακ’ ἐλαύνοι, μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθ’ ὁμήλικασ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ θυμὸν ἔχων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:18)
  • "ἐμαυτὸν ἐθίζω μελετῶν ὥστ’ ἐν μηδεμιᾷ μεταβολῇ μεταβολὴν ζητεῖν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 22 1:1)
  • τὰ μαθήματα καὶ μελετῶν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 12 5:1)
  • ταχὺ δὲ τῆσ ἐκείνου μανίασ μεστὸσ γενόμενοσ, καὶ φοβηθεὶσ τοὺσ συνισταμένουσ ἐπὶ τὸν Κλώδιον, ἀπῆρεν ἐκ τῆσ Ἰταλίασ εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ διέτριβε τό τε σῶμα γυμνάζων πρὸσ τοὺσ στρατιωτικοὺσ ἀγῶνασ καὶ λέγειν μελετῶν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 2 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. care

  2. practice

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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