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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

  • πλὴν μεγάλαι Νεμέσεισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2163)
  • καὶ κάλλουσ εἰσί τινεσ Νεμέσεισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3265)
  • οὐδέ Σμυρναῖαι Νεμέσεισ ὅ τι σοὶ πιλέγουσιν, Ἀρτεμίδωρε, νοεῖσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1931)
  • πλατάνῳ καθεύδοντι κελεύειν φασὶν αὐτῷ τὰσ Νεμέσεισ ἐπιφανείσασ πόλιν ἐνταῦθα οἰκίζειν καὶ ἄγειν ἐσ αὐτὴν Σμυρναίουσ ἀναστήσαντα ἐκ τῆσ προτέρασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 4:1)
  • οὕτω μετῳκίσαντο ἐθελονταὶ καὶ δύο Νεμέσεισ νομίζουσιν ἀντὶ μιᾶσ καὶ μητέρα αὐταῖσ φασιν εἶναι Νύκτα, ἐπεὶ Ἀθηναῖοί γε τῇ ἐν Ῥαμνοῦντι θεῷ πατέρα λέγουσιν εἶναι Ὠκεανόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. indignation

Related

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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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