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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

  • τοὺσ δὲ πολιορκοῦντασ οὐκ ἔλαθεν, ἀλλ’ ἀπήντων ὡσ ἀναρπασόμενοι, τῆσ ὀλιγότητοσ καταφρονήσαντεσ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 24 2:2)
  • παρὰ τούτου μαθών, ὡσ ἡ μὲν ἄλλη δύναμισ ἐν τοῖσ στενοῖσ κάθηται μετ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, οἱ δὲ φρουροῦντεσ οὗτοι τὰσ ὑπερβολὰσ Αἰτωλῶν εἰσιν ἑξακόσιοι λογάδεσ, καταφρονήσασ τῆσ ὀλιγότητοσ ἅμα καὶ τῆσ ὀλιγωρίασ εὐθὺσ ἐπῆγεν ἅμα σάλπιγξι καὶ ἀλαλαγμῷ, πρῶτοσ σπασάμενοσ τὴν μάχαιραν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 13 7:1)
  • αἱρέσεισ τῶν φύσει μὲν ἀγαθῶν οὐκ ἐπαινετῶν δὲ δεῖ τινα εἶναι ὁρ́ον καὶ τῆσ ἕξεωσ καὶ τῆσ αἱρέσεωσ καὶ περὶ φυγῆσ <καὶ περὶ> χρημάτων πλήθουσ καὶ ὀλιγότητοσ καὶ τῶν εὐτυχημάτων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 66:1)
  • ἤδη γὰρ ἐγνώκει παρὰ τὸ συμφέρον ἐμβεβληκὼσ ἑαυτὸν εἰσ χωρία θαλάττῃ καί ὄρεσι καί ποταμῷ διὰ μέσου ῥέοντι τῷ Πινάρῳ δύσιππα, καί διεσπασμένα πολλαχοῦ, καί πρὸσ τῆσ ὀλιγότητοσ τῶν πολεμίων ἔχοντα τὴν θέσιν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 20 3:1)
  • Χαρίλαοσ δὲ ὁ ἀδελφιδοῦσ τοῦ Λυκούργου περὶ τῆσ ὀλιγότητοσ αὑτοῦ τῶν νόμων ἐρωτηθείσ, εἶπεν ὡσ οἱ λόγοισ μὴ χρώμενοι πολλοῖσ οὐδὲ νόμων δέονται πολλῶν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 20 1:3)

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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