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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

  • διαφέρει δὲ τούτων ἕτερα ἑτέρων τῷ τὰ μὲν ἀσφαλέστερα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ πλείω πορίζειν τὴν ἐπικαρπίαν, δεύτερον δὲ τοκισμόσ, τρίτον δὲ μισθαρνία ταύτησ δ’ ἡ μὲν τῶν βαναύσων τεχνῶν, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἀτέχνων καὶ τῷ σώματι μόνῳ χρησίμων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 148:3)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἀπηγγέλθη τάχισθ’ ἡ μάχη, οὐδὲν τούτων φροντίσασ εὐθέωσ ὡμολόγεισ καὶ προσεποιοῦ φιλίαν καὶ ξενίαν εἶναί σοι πρὸσ αὐτόν, τῇ μισθαρνίᾳ ταῦτα μετατιθέμενοσ τὰ ὀνόματα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 402:1)

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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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