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μνηστεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνηστεία

Structure: μνηστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a wooing, courting

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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἐπειδήπερ εἰσ ἀκμὴν κατέστη, πάντεσ οἱ ἄριστοι τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐπὶ τὴν μνηστείαν ἀπήντησαν, προεκρίθη δὲ Μενέλεωσ τοῦ Πελοπιδῶν γένουσ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 14:4)
  • τινὲσ δέ φασιν οὐ τῶν ἀδελφιδῶν, ἀλλὰ τῶν θυγατέρων τὴν μνηστείαν γενέσθαι, τοῦ δὲ Μουνατίου ταῦτα πρὸσ τὸν Κάτωνα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὰσ ἀδελφὰσ φράσαντοσ, αἱ μὲν ὑπερηγάπησαν τὴν οἰκειότητα πρὸσ τὸ μέγεθοσ καὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ὁ δὲ Κάτων οὔτ’ ἐπισχὼν οὔτε βουλευσάμενοσ, ἀλλὰ πληγεὶσ εὐθὺσ εἶπε· (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 30 3:1)
  • παραγίνεται τοίνυν καὶ Πέλοψ ἐπὶ τὴν μνηστείαν· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 2 6:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Περδίκκασ πρότερον μὲν ἦν κεκρικὼσ κοινοπραγίαν Ἀντιπάτρῳ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὴν μνηστείαν ἐπεποίητο, μήπω τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν πραγμάτων βεβαίωσ ἐστερεωμένων· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 23 2:1)
  • γυναῖκασ παρ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ τοὺσ πλεῖστον ἀπέχοντασ τοῖσ ἐνδοξοτάτοισ, καὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἀφικέσθαι κατὰ μνηστείαν ἔφη, πιστεύοντα τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ πατρόσ, σχεδόν τι βασιλεύοντοσ τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἁπάσησ, καὶ οὐδὲ πολὺ τῆσ Τροίασ ἀπεχούσησ, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τῶν Πελοπιδῶν ἤδη δυναστευόντων ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι καὶ πολλῆσ ἐπιμιξίασ γενομένησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 59:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wooing

Related

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

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