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οἰκουρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκουρία

Structure: οἰκουρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. housekeeping, the cares of housekeeping
  2. a staying at home

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

  • σέ τ’ οὐχ ὁμοίωσ, ὦ τάλαιν’, ἀπώλεσα ὥσπερ σὺ τἀμὰ λέκτρ’ ἔσῳζεσ ἀσφαλῶσ, μακρὰσ διαντλοῦσ’ ἐν δόμοισ οἰκουρίασ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:17)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἔστω καὶ δοκείτω διατρεπτικὸσ εἶναι λόγοσ πρὸσ τὸν ἀρχόμενον ἐν πολιαῖσ νεανιεύεσθαι λεγόμενοσ καὶ καθαπτόμενοσ ἐκ μακρᾶσ οἰκουρίασ; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 91)
  • τὴν Ἠλείων ὁ Φειδίασ Ἀφροδίτην ἐποίησε χελώνην πατοῦσαν, οἰκουρίασ σύμβολον ταῖσ γυναιξὶ καὶ σιωπῆσ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 321)
  • ἔκειτο δὲ πάλαι καὶ σανδάλια καὶ ἄτρακτοσ, τὸ μὲν οἰκουρίασ αὐτῆσ, τὸ δ’ ἐνεργείασ σύμβολον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 30 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a staying at home

Related

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

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