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μεταβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταβολή

Structure: μεταβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: metaba/llw

Sense

  1. a change, changing
  2. exchange, barter, traffic
  3. a transition, change, changes, vicissitudes, change from, change to . ., going over, change to
  4. an eclipse
  5. change, a revolution
  6. a wheeling about

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

  • ὀλισθηραὶ δὲ καὶ συνεχεῖσ αἱ παρὰ τῶν πραγμάτων γινόμεναι μεταβολαί. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 47:1)
  • τοσόνδε μέντοι συμβουλεύσαιμ̓ ἂν τῷ στρατηγῷ, ἐκ τοῦ παντὸσ πλήθουσ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ τοσούτουσ ἐσ τὰσ μάχασ ἐξαγαγεῖν, ὁπόσοι ἐπιτήδειοι ἔσονται πρὸσ τὰσ μεταβολάσ τε τῶν τάξεων καὶ τὰσ μετακινήσεισ, οἱο͂ν διπλασιασμοὺσ καὶ πολυπλασιασμοὺσ καὶ πτύξεισ καὶ ἐξελιγμοὺσ ἢ εἰ δή τινεσ ἄλλαι μεταβολαὶ τάξεων. (Arrian, chapter 9 7:1)
  • κεκλημένῳ δὲ φωτὶ μακαρίῳ ποτὲ αἱ μεταβολαὶ λυπηρόν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:22)
  • ἐπεὶ τοίνυν μεγάλαι περὶ ἀμφοτέρουσ γεγόνασι μεταβολαί, πρῶτον τὰ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ καὶ τῆσ ἐπιφανείασ σκοπῶμεν, ὅτι τῷ μὲν ἦν πατρῷα καὶ προκατειργασμένα, μέγιστον ἰσχύσαντοσ Ἀντιγόνου τῶν διαδόχων καὶ πρὸ τοῦ Δημήτριον ἐν ἡλικίᾳ γενέσθαι τὰ πλεῖστα τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἐπελθόντοσ καὶ κρατήσαντοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Demetrius and Antony, chapter 1 1:1)
  • καίτοι τοῦ πολύποδοσ αἱ μεταβολαὶ βάθοσ οὐκ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ περὶ αὐτὴν γίγνονται τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν, στυφότητι καὶ μανότητι τὰσ ἀπορροὰσ τῶν πλησιαζόντων ἀναλαμβάνουσαν· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 9 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a change

  2. exchange

  3. an eclipse

  4. change

  5. a wheeling about

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

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