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μισθαρνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθαρνία

Structure: μισθαρνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from misqarnh/s

Sense

  1. an earning of wages

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

  • εἰσ ὃ δὴ μάλιστα λοιδορούμενοσ ὁ Καῖσαρ τῷ Κάτωνι φιλοπλουτίαν προφέρει καὶ μισθαρνίαν ἐπὶ τῷ γάμῳ. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 52 4:1)
  • ἐνταῦθα πάλιν εἰσ μισθαρνίαν καταβάλλει καὶ σοφιστείαν καὶ γὰρ αἰτήσειν καὶ προλήψεσθαι τὸ μὲν εὐθὺσ ἀρχομένου, τὸ δὲ χρόνου τῷ μαθητῇ διελθόντοσ, ὅπερ εὐγνωμονέστερον εἶναί φησιν, ἀσφαλέστερον δὲ τὸ προλαμβάνειν, ὡσ ἀδικήματα τοῦ τόπου ἐπιδεχομένου. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 20 15:1)
  • παρηνώχλησθε δ’ ἴσωσ οἱ καὶ πρὶν ἔμ’ εἰπεῖν ὁτιοῦν εἰδότεσ τὴν τούτου τότε μισθαρνίαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 70:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἰσ μισθαρνίαν οὐδὲ εἰσ προσόδουσ, ἀλλ’ εἰσ τὴν τῶν ἀδικουμένων κατετίθετο βοήθειαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 13 7:3)

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

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