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ὄγκος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: onkos

Principal Part: ὄγκος ὄγκου

Structure: ὀγκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From Root ΕΓΚ, in ἐνεγκεῖν 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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