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νεανίευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεανίευμα νεανίευματος

Structure: νεανιευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from nea_nieu/omai

Sense

  1. a youthful, a spirited, a wanton act or word

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐκοῦν ἤν τινα καὶ τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἴδῃ ἀσκούμενον πρὸ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ, λακτίζοντα εἰσ τὸν ἀέρα ἢ πὺξ κενὴν πληγήν τινα καταφέροντα, ὡσ τὸν ἀνταγωνιστὴν δῆθεν παίοντα, εὐθὺσ ἀνακηρύξει αὐτὸν ἀγωνοθέτησ ὢν ὡσ ἄμαχόν τινα, ἢ ἐκεῖνα μὲν οἰήσεται ῥᾴδια εἶναι καὶ ἀσφαλῆ τὰ νεανιεύματα, οὐδενοσ ἀνταιρομένου αὐτῷ, τὴν δὲ νίκην τηνικαῦτα κρίνεσθαι, ὁπόταν καταγωνίσηται τὸν ἀντίπαλον αὐτὸν καὶ κρατήσῃ, ὸ δ̓ ἀπαγορεύσῃ, ἄλλωσ δὲ οὔ; (Lucian, 68:3)
  • ἄνελε τὰ περὶ Ἑλλήσποντον Ἀλκιβιάδου νεανιεύματα καὶ τὰ πρὸσ Λέσβῳ Θρασύλλου καὶ τὴν ὑπὸ Θηραμένουσ τῆσ ὀλιγαρχίασ κατάλυσιν καὶ Θρασύβουλον καὶ Ἀρχῖνον καὶ τοὺσ ἀπὸ Φυλῆσ ἑβδομήκοντα κατὰ τῆσ Σπαρτιατῶν ἡγεμονίασ ἀνισταμένουσ καὶ Κόνωνα πάλιν ἐμβιβάζοντα τὰσ Ἀθήνασ εἰσ τὴν θάλατταν, καὶ Κράτιπποσ ἀνῄρηται. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 1 1:1)
  • ἠγωνίζετο δὲ Βροῦτοσ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ ἀρετῇ πρὸσ πολλὰ τοῦ Κασσίου καὶ λαμπρὰ τὰ Παρθικὰ νεανιεύματα. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 7 2:2)
  • καὶ τὰ τούτων ἑξῆσ ἆρα καλῶσ, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τισ ἐν λόγῳ ἢ ἐν ποιήσει εἴρηκε νεανιεύματα ἰδιωτῶν εἰσ ἄρχοντασ; (Plato, Republic, book 3 78:1)

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

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