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ὄγκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄγκος ὄγκου

Structure: ὀγκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From Root EGK, in e)negkei=n to bear.

Sense

  1. bulk, size, mass
  2. a bulk, mass, heap, a heap
  3. weight, trouble
  4. weight, importance, dignity, pride, self-importance, pretension

Declension

Second 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

  • ‐ τοῖσ ζῶσι δ’ ὄγκοσ καὶ δόμων εὐδοξία. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic6)
  • ὁ γὰρ ὄγκοσ καὶ τὸ ξένον καὶ τὸ ἐξ ἐπιτηδεύσεωσ ἅπαν ἀνηθοποίητον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 85)
  • Ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ μέντοι καὶ πάνυ πολλήν σοι εἰδέναι τὴν χάριν ὁμολογῶ ἐμοῦ γὰρ ἐπαινέσαντοσ τὸ μέτριον τοῦ σοῦ τρόπου καὶ ὅτι μηδὲν ὑπερπετὲσ μηδὲ τύφου μεστὸν ἐνεποίησέ σοι ὁ παρὼν ὄγκοσ τῶν πραγμάτων, σὺ τὰ τοιαῦτα αἰτιασαμένη τοῦ λόγου ἐπιστώσω τοῦ ἐπαίνου τὴν ἀλήθειαν τὸ γὰρ μὴ προαρπάζειν τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν ἐγκωμίων, ἀλλ’ αἰδεῖσθαι ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ μείζω ἢ κατὰ σὲ εἶναι λέγειν, μετρίασ καὶ δημοτικῆσ τινοσ διανοίασ δεῖγμά ἐστιν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 17:7)
  • ὦ πολὺσ ὄγκοσ συστελλόμενοσ προγόνων, ὡσ οὐδὲν ἄρ’ ἦσθα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, anapests8)
  • ἔνεστι μὲν οὖν ἐν τῇ κατασκευῇ τῶν ὀνομάτων αὐτῷ τὸ τραγικὸν τὸ κωμικὸν τὸ σοβαρὸν τὸ πεζόν, ἀσάφεια κοινότησ, ὄγκοσ καὶ δίαρμα, σπερμολογία καὶ φλυαρία ναυτιώδησ. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. weight

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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