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ὀλιγότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγότης ὀλιγότητος

Structure: ὀλιγοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)li/gos

Sense

  1. fewness
  2. smallness, scantiness, shortness

Declension

Third 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

  • αἴτια δὲ τά τε πρῶτα ῥηθέντα δύο, ὀλιγότησ τε, οἱο͂ν τῶν πρὸσ τὰ ἡδέα ἀναισθήτων, καὶ ὅτι ἐφ’ ὃ ἁμαρτάνομεν μᾶλλον, τοῦτο ἐναντιώτερον εἶναι δοκεῖ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 147:2)
  • δᾷδάσ τε ἧπτε καὶ πῦρ πανταχόθεν ἤγειρε, καὶ καταφανὴσ ἦν ἡ τῶν ἐσελθόντων ὀλιγότησ, ὥστε αὐτῶν πάνυ καταφρονήσαντεσ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι, ἐσ ὀργὴν ἐκ τοῦ πρὶν δέουσ μεταβαλόντεσ, εὐμαρῶσ οἱᾶ ψιλοὺσ καὶ ὀλίγουσ διέφθειραν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 2:3)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων οἱ μὲν δυνατοὶ πάμπαν ἐπλούτουν, καὶ τὸ τῶν θεραπόντων γένοσ ἀνὰ τὴν χώραν ἐπλήθυε, τοὺσ δ’ Ἰταλιώτασ ὀλιγότησ καὶ δυσανδρία κατελάμβανε, τρυχομένουσ πενίᾳ τε καὶ ἐσφοραῖσ καὶ στρατείαισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 1 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. fewness

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

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