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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μνηστεία μνηστείᾱ μνηστεῖαι
Genitive μνηστείᾱς μνηστείαιν μνηστειῶν
Dative μνηστείᾱͅ μνηστείαιν μνηστείαις
Accusative μνηστείᾱν μνηστείᾱ μνηστείᾱς
Vocative μνηστείᾱ μνηστείᾱ 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 οἱο͂ν 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

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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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