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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

  • Τρίτῃ δὲ ἀπὸ ταύτησ ἡμέρᾳ νηνεμίαν τε φυλάξασ καὶ παρακαλέσασ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ τῶν τάξεων ἐσ τὸ ἔργον ἐπῆγε τῇ πόλει ἐπὶ τῶν νεῶν τὰσ μηχανάσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 23 1:1)
  • ἰχθύων δὲ πλῆθοσ ἐκ τῆσ μεγάλησ θαλάττησ εἰσ αὐτὸν ἀθροίζεται διά τε τὴν νηνεμίαν καὶ τὴν γλυκύτητα τῶν εἰσ αὐτὸν ῥεόντων ὑδάτων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 44 8:3)
  • κατὰ γὰρ τὴν τοῦ κυνὸσ ἐπιτολὴν ἐπ’ ἄκρασ τῆσ κορυφῆσ διὰ τὴν νηνεμίαν τοῦ περιέχοντοσ ἀέροσ ὑπερπετῆ γίνεσθαι τὴν ἄκραν τῆσ τῶν ἀνέμων πνοῆσ, ὁρᾶσθαι δὲ τὸν ἥλιον ἔτι νυκτὸσ οὔσησ ἀνατέλλοντα, τὰσ ἀκτῖνασ οὐκ ἐν κυκλοτερεῖ σχήματι γεγραμμένον, ἀλλὰ τὴν φλόγα κατὰ πολλοὺσ τόπουσ ἔχοντα διεσπαρμένην, ὥστε δοκεῖν πυρὰ πλείω θιγγάνειν τοῦ τῆσ γῆσ ὁρίζοντοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 7 7:1)
  • ὁρᾶν τ’ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ βουνὸν τεφρώδη τὴν χρόαν, οἱάπερ καὶ ἡ ἐπιφάνεια καθεωρᾶτο τοῦ πεδίου, ὑπὲρ δὲ τοῦ βουνοῦ νέφοσ ὄρθιον διανεστηκὸσ εἰσ ὕψοσ ὅσον διακοσίων ποδῶν ἠρεμοῦν εἶναι γὰρ καὶ νηνεμίαν, εἰκάζειν δὲ καπνῷ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 16:7)

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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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