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ὄρεξις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρεξις ὀρέξεως

Structure: ὀρεξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)re/gw

Sense

  1. yearning, longing, desire

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

  • Εἶτα πῶσ ὁ οἰνοχόοσ ὀρέξει πλῆρεσ οὕτω βαρὺ ἔκπωμα; (Lucian, 37:1)
  • οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ μαστιγοῦσθαι τοὺσ οἰκέτασ πρὸσ αὐλόν, οὕτω πρὸσ ἡδονὴν δεῖ καθάπερ ἀπολαύσματοσ ὀρέξει τῆσ τιμωρίασ ἐμφορεῖσθαι καὶ χαίρειν κολάζοντασ εἶτα μετανοεῖν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 11 22:1)
  • οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ κατ’ αὐτὸν ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ μαστιγοῦσθαι τοὺσ οἰκέτασ πρὸσ αὐλόν, οὕτω πρὸσ ἡδονὴν δεῖ καθάπερ ἀπολαύσματοσ ὀρέξει τῆσ τιμωρίασ ἐμφορεῖσθαι καὶ χαίρειν κολάζοντασ, κολάσαντασ δὲ μετανοεῖν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 11 6:3)
  • καὶ καθάπερ ἐν γράμμασι τὰ ἡμίφωνα μέσα τῶν ἀφώνων ἐστὶ καὶ τῶν φωνηέντων τῷ πλέον ἐκείνων ἠχεῖν ἔλαττον δὲ τούτων, οὕτωσ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τἀνθρώπου τὸ θυμοειδὲσ οὐκ ἀκράτωσ παθητικόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ φαντασίαν καλοῦ πολλάκισ ἔχει μεμιγμένην ἀλόγῳ τῇ τῆσ τιμωρίασ ὀρέξει. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 11:2)
  • ὥστ’ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων ἁπλοῦν τὸ βίαιον, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀψύχων οὐ γὰρ ἔχει λόγον καὶ ὄρεξιν ἐναντίαν, ἀλλὰ τῇ ὀρέξει ζῇ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 132:5)

Synonyms

  1. yearning

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