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νώθεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νώθεια

Structure: νωθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from nwqh/s

Sense

  1. sluggishness, dulness

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

  • "αὐτῆσ δὲ νώθειαν καὶ τάχουσ ἀμβλύτητα καὶ τὸ θερμὸν ἀδρανὲσ καὶ ἀμαυρόν, ᾧ κατὰ τὸν Ιὤνα μέλασ οὐ πεπαίνεται βότρυσ, εἰσ τί θησόμεθα πλὴν ἀσθένειαν αὐτῆσ καὶ πάθοσ, εἰ πάθουσ ἀιδίῳ σώματι καὶ ὀλυμπίῳ μέτεστιν; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 16 2:5)
  • οἵ τε δοκιμώτατοι τῶν ἀρχιερέων, Γαμάλα μὲν υἱὸσ Ιἠσοῦσ Ἀνάνου δὲ Ἄνανοσ, πολλὰ τὸν δῆμον εἰσ νωθείαν κατονειδίζοντεσ ἐν ταῖσ συνόδοισ ἐπήγειρον τοῖσ ζηλωταῖσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 187:1)
  • πέμπειν δὲ στρατηγοὺσ, οἵτινεσ τοῦ Νικίου γήρωσ καὶ τῆσ ἐμπειρίασ ἀπολαύσαντεσ τὴν νωθείαν ὑπερβήσονται· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 13:9)
  • καίτοι ταῦτα πότερον ἀργίαν καὶ δειλίαν καὶ ἀνανδρείαν καὶ ταπεινότητα καὶ νωθείαν εἰσάγοντοσ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ αὐτῶν ἦν, ἢ δέδοικα μή τι καὶ ἀλλοῖον εἴπῃ τισ, πλήν γε ὅσον οὐκ ὀρθῶσ ἐρεῖ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:9)

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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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