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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

  • ἵνα ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ τροφὴν διὰ τὴν εἰδέ χθειαν τῶν ἐπαπεσταλμένων καὶ τὴν ἀναγκαίαν ὄρεξιν ἀποστρέφωνται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπ̓ ὀλίγον ἐνδεεῖσ γενόμενοι καὶ ξένησ μετάσχωσι γεύσεωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:3)
  • οὕτωσ αἱ περὶ τὴν ἐδωδὴν ἀκρασίαι τὸ φυσικὸν παρελθοῦσαι καὶ ἀναγκαῖον τέλοσ ἐν ὠμότητι καὶ παρανομίᾳ ποικίλλουσι τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 2 2:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰ φυτὰ τῶν ζῴων, οἷσ οὔτε φαντασίαν οὔθ’ ὁρμὴν ἔδωκε ἢ ἑτέρων ὄρεξιν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἀποσαλεύουσαν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν δεσμῷ συνειργμένα μένει καὶ κεκράτηται, μίαν ἀεὶ, πορείαν ἣν ἡ φύσισ ἄγει πορευόμενα. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰ φυτὰ τῶν ζῴων , οἷσ οὔτε φαντασίαν οὔθ’ ὁρμὴν ἔδωκεν ἑτέρων ὄρεξιν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἀποσαλεύουσαν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν δεσμῷ συνειργμένα μένει καὶ κεκράτηται, μίαν ἀεὶ πορείαν ἣν ἡ φύσισ ἄγει πορευόμενα. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 7:2)
  • ἀλλὰ ποτῷ μὲν ἔσβεσαν τὴν τοῦ ποτοῦ ὄρεξιν καὶ τροφὴ τὴν τῆσ τροφῆσ ἐπιθυμίαν ἠκέσαντο· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 22)

Synonyms

  1. yearning

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