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μωρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μωρία

Structure: μωρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: mw=ros

Sense

  1. silliness, folly, folly, it, what folly!

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

  • γενναιότησ σοι, μωρία δ’ ἔνεστί τισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:10)
  • μωρία καὶ κακία τὰ τοιαῦτ’ ἐλπίζειν, καὶ κακῶσ βουλευομένουσ καὶ μηδὲν ὧν προσήκει ποιεῖν ἐθέλοντασ, ἀλλὰ τῶν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν λεγόντων ἀκροωμένουσ, τηλικαύτην ἡγεῖσθαι πόλιν οἰκεῖν τὸ μέγεθοσ ὥστε <μηδέν>, μηδ’ ἂν ὁτιοῦν ᾖ, δεινὸν πείσεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 81:1)
  • εἶτα καὶ πόση μωρία, λέγονθ’ ὡσ ἐπεβούλευον ἀτιμῶσαι καὶ τὰ ἔσχατα πρᾶξαι, οἰκέτῃ με ταῦτα προστάξαι γεγραφέναι, ἃ οὐδὲ πολίτησ πολίτην δύναιτ’ ἂν ποιῆσαι; (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 35:1)
  • αἰσχύνη δὲ καὶ μωρία πολλὴ πρῶτον ἀναστάντα μὴ οὐχ ἃ δεῖ πρῶτον ἐπανορθώσασθαι λέγειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 9 3:6)
  • ὥστε τά γε δὴ κατ’ οὐρανὸν ὑπ’ ἄλλου του φάναι γεγονέναι, καὶ μὴ ψυχῆσ τε καὶ σώματοσ οὕτωσ εἶναι γεννήματα, πολλὴ μωρία τε καὶ ἀλογία. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 74:2)
  • μωρίᾳ γε τοῦ νέου. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:4)
  • ἕτοιμοι δ’ εἰσὶ μωρίᾳ φρενῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:15)
  • ὡσ οὖν παραινῶ μὴ μακράν, σιγήσομαι ἅ μου καθικετεύσατ’, οὐδὲ μωρίᾳ ξύμβουλοσ ἔσομαι τῇ κασιγνήτου ποτέ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 16:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ τοξεύειν τῷ ἀρότρῳ βουλόμενοσ καὶ τῷ βοῒ τὸν λαγῶ κυνηγετεῖν δυστυχήσ ἐστιν οὐδὲ τῷ γρίφοισ καὶ σαγήναισ ἐλάφουσ μὴ λαμβάνοντι μηδὲ ὗσ δαίμων ἐναντιοῦται μοχθηρόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀβελτερίᾳ καὶ μωρίᾳ τοῖσ ἀδυνάτοισ ἐπιχειροῦσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 122)

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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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