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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

  • ἀνθ̓ ἧσ κολάσεωσ εὐεργετήσασ τὸν λαόν σου, εἰσ ἐπιθυμίαν ὀρέξεωσ ξένην γεῦσιν, τροφὴν ἡτοίμασασ ὀρτυγομήτραν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:2)
  • "καὶ γὰρ ὁ τῶν θηρίων βίοσ τοιοῦτόσ ἐστιν, ὅτι τῆσ ἡδονῆσ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταται κάλλιον οὐδὲ δίκην θεῶν οἶδεν οὐδὲ σέβεται τῆσ τὸ κάλλοσ, ἀλλ’ εἴ τι θαρραλέον αὐτοῖσ ἢ πανοῦργον ἢ δραστήριον ἐκ φύσεωσ ἔνεστι, τούτῳ πρὸσ ἡδονὴν σαρκὸσ καὶ ἀποπλήρωσιν ὀρέξεωσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 30 1:7)
  • ’ τὰ ταρίχη τὰ ἐκ τῶν θαλασσίων καὶ λιμναίων καὶ ποταμίων γινόμενά ἐστιν ὀλιγότροφα, ὀλιγόχυλα, καυσώδη, εὐκοίλια, ἐρεθιστικὰ ὀρέξεωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 922)
  • ᾗ ἄνθρωποσ, λογισμὸν ἐνεῖναι καὶ ἀρχὴν καὶ πρᾶξιν, ἄρχει δ’ ὁ λογισμὸσ οὐ λογισμοῦ ἀλλ’ ὀρέξεωσ καὶ παθημάτων, ἀνάγκη ἄρα ταῦτ’ ἔχειν τὰ μέρη. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 30:1)
  • λέγονται δὲ κατ’ ἄλλον τρόπον βίᾳ καὶ ἀναγκασθέντεσ πρᾶξαι, οὐ διαφωνοῦντοσ τοῦ λόγου καὶ τῆσ ὀρέξεωσ, ὅταν πράττωσιν ὃ καὶ λυπηρὸν καὶ φαῦλον ὑπολαμβάνουσιν, ἀλλ’ ἂν μὴ τοῦτο πράττωσι, πληγαὶ ἢ δεσμοὶ ἢ θάνατοι ὦσιν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 147:1)

Synonyms

  1. yearning

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