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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

  • κρείσσων ἄνθρωποσ ἀποκρύπτων τὴν μωρίαν αὐτοῦ ἢ ἄνθρωποσ ἀποκρύπτων τὴν σοφίαν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 20:30)
  • κρείσσων ἄνθρωποσ ἀποκρύπτων τὴν μωρίαν αὐτοῦ ἢ ἄνθρωποσ ἀποκρύπτων τὴν σοφίαν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:15)
  • οὐ μὴ προσοίσεισ χεῖρα, βακχεύσεισ δ’ ἰών, μηδ’ ἐξομόρξῃ μωρίαν τὴν σὴν ἐμοί; (Euripides, episode 15:1)
  • ὡσ δύ’ ἐξ ἑνὸσ κακὼ συνάπτει, μωρίαν τ’ ὀφλισκάνει θνῄσκει θ’ ὁμοίωσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 1:15)
  • ὅσοι δέ, χρηστοὶ δυνάμενοί τ’ εἶναι σοφοί, σιγῶσι κοὐ σπεύδουσιν ἐσ τὰ πράγματα, γέλωτ’ ἐν αὐτοῖσ μωρίαν τε λήψομαι οὐχ ἡσυχάζων ἐν πόλει φόβου πλέᾳ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic18)

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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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