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νέμεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέμεσις νέμεσεως

Structure: νεμεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ne/mw

Sense

  1. distribution of what is due;, a righteous assignment of anger, wrath at anything unjust, just resentment, indignation at undeserved good fortune
  2. indignation, wrath
  3. the object of just resentment, no cause for wrath
  4. indignation at one's own misdeed, a sense of sin
  5. Nemesis, divine wrath, the goddess of retribution.

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νέμεσις νεμέσει νεμέσεις
Genitive νεμέσεως νέμουιν νεμέσεων
Dative νεμέσει νέμουιν νεμέσεσιν*
Accusative νέμεσιν νεμέσει νεμέσεις
Vocative νέμεσι νεμέσει νεμέσεις

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

  • ἐτείρετο γὰρ φρένασ αἰδοῖ καὶ νεμέσει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 10 2:1)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ κότταβοσ καὶ τὸ ἄγγοσ εἰσ ὃ ἔβαλλον τὰσ λάταγασ, ὡσ Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Νεμέσει δείκνυσιν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 3 1:1)
  • Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Νεμέσει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 6 1:3)
  • "ὀρνίθια δ’ εἴρηκε Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Νεμέσει οὕτωσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:15)
  • "Κρατῖνοσ Νεμέσει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:33)

Synonyms

  1. indignation

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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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