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μνηστεία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: mnēsteia

Principal Part: μνηστεία

Structure: μνηστει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a wooing, courting

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μνηστεία μνηστεία μνηστεῖαι
Genitive μνηστείας μνηστείαιν μνηστειῶν
Dative μνηστείᾳ μνηστείαιν μνηστείαις
Accusative μνηστείαν μνηστεία μνηστείας
Vocative μνηστεία μνηστεία μνηστεῖαι

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

  • ἅμα τῷ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐν μνηστείᾳ βαλέσθαι τι καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸ κινῆσαι τὴν ὁρμήν, ὅλος ἀναστὰς καὶ συνταθείς, πᾶσι τοῖς μέρεσιν οἱο῀ν ἐπτερωμένος φέρεται πρὸς τὴν πρᾶξιν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 20 15:4)
  • ἐλυπεῖτο οὖν καὶ βαρέως ἔφερεν τῇ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον αὐτοῦ μεταβολῇ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπότε θεάσαιτο μετὰ τῶν εἰωθότων παρασήμων τῆς βασιλείας ἐπιφοιτῶντά τε τοῖς πλήθεσιν, ἐπικρύπτεσθαι οὐκ ἠνείχετο τὴν δυστυχίαν τοῦ φθόνου, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἄνδρα ἐξῆρεν κελεύουσα ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης πλεῖν ἐπὶ μνηστείᾳ τῶν ἴσων: (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 286:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wooing

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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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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