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νηνεμία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηνεμία

Structure: νηνεμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from nh/nemos

Sense

  1. stillness in the air, a calm, in a calm, a ceasing of all winds

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

  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ ἀνελκύσαντεσ τὸ πλοῖον καὶ διὰ τῶν ἀραιωμάτων διαγαγόντεσ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀδόντων ἐξάψαντεσ ἠρέμα καθήκαμεν ἐσ τὴν θάλατταν ἐπαναβάντεσ δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ νῶτα καὶ θύσαντεσ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι αὐτοῦ παρὰ τὸ τρόπαιον ἡμέρασ τε τρεῖσ ἐπαυλισάμενοι νηνεμία γὰρ ἦν ‐ τῇ τετάρτῃ ἀπεπλεύσαμεν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 2:2)
  • οἱο͂ν τί ἐστι νηνεμία; (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 8 28:3)
  • "νηνεμία γὰρ ἠχῶδεσ καὶ γαλήνη, καὶ τοὐναντίον, ὡσ Σιμωνίδησ φησίν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐννοσίφυλλοσ ἀήτα τότ’ ὦρτ’ ἀνέμων, ἅ τισ κατεκώλυε κιδναμένα μελιαδέα γᾶρυν ἀραρεῖν ἀκοαῖσι βροτῶν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 14:8)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἦν νηνεμία καὶ σιγὴ κατὰ θάλατταν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 7:2)
  • καὶ διασκεδάννυσιν, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ ὅταν τύχῃ τισ μὴ ἐν νηνεμίᾳ ἀλλ’ ἐν μεγάλῳ τινὶ πνεύματι ἀποθνῄσκων. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 369:1)

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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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