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μομφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μομφή

Structure: μομφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: me/mfomai

Sense

  1. blame, censure, cause or ground of complaint, blame as to

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μομφή μομφᾱ́ μομφαί
Genitive μομφῆς μομφαῖν μομφῶν
Dative μομφῇ μομφαῖν μομφαῖς
Accusative μομφήν μομφᾱ́ μομφᾱ́ς
Vocative μομφή μομφᾱ́ μομφαί

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

  • ἀκούσαθ’ ὑμεῖσ ὧν ἕνεκα μομφὴν ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode10)
  • ἓν μὲν πρῶτά σοι μομφὴν ἔχω, εἰ ζῆν με χρῄζειν σοῦ θανόντοσ ἤλπισασ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 3:2)
  • ἂν δέ τισ ὑμῶν ἄρα ταύτην πῃ λύειν δοκῇ ‐ τὸ γὰρ ἀνθρώπινον οὐ παντάπασιν βέβαιον ‐ δεῦρο παρ’ ἐμὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἐμοὺσ πέμπετε μομφῆσ κατήγορον ἐπιστολήν· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 6 7:5)
  • στυγῶν γὰρ ἐχθροὺσ θάνατον εἵλετ’ ἐν πόλει ἱερῶν πατρῴων δ’ ὅσιοσ ὢν μομφῆσ ἄτερ τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖσ νέοισ θνῄσκειν καλόν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode3)
  • Ἐνδύσασθε οὖν ὡσ ἐκλεκτοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἅγιοι καὶ ἠγαπημένοι, σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμοῦ, χρηστότητα, ταπεινοφροσύνην, πραΰτητα, μακροθυμίαν, ἀνεχόμενοι ἀλλήλων καὶ χαριζόμενοι ἑαυτοῖσ ἐάν τισ πρόσ τινα ἔχῃ μομφήν· (PROS KOLASSAEIS, chapter 1 72:1)

Synonyms

  1. blame

Similar forms

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

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