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ὁρμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁρμή ὁρμῆς

Structure: ὁρμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. violent pressure, assault, force
  2. first movements, beginning, start
  3. eagerness, struggle, effort
  4. violence, passion, appetite

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσῃ πτόησιν ἐπελθοῦσαν, οὐδὲ ὁρμὰσ ἀσεβῶν ἐπερχομένασ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 3:25)
  • ὅπερ ἀληθῶσ οἱ πρὸσ ἐπιθυμίασ ὄχλων καὶ ὁρμὰσ πολιτευόμενοι πάσχουσι, δουλεύοντεσ καὶ ἀκολουθοῦντεσ ἵνα δημαγωγοὶ καὶ ἄρχοντεσ ὀνομάζωνται. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 1 2:1)
  • Φύλαρχοσ δὲ Σανδρόκοττόν φησι τὸν Ἰνδῶν βασιλέα Σελεύκῳ μεθ’ ὧν ἔπεμψε δώρων ἀποστεῖλαί τινασ δυνάμεισ στυτικὰσ τοιαύτασ ὡσ ὑπὸ τοὺσ πόδασ τιθεμένασ τῶν συνουσιαζόντων οἷσ μὲν ὁρμὰσ ἐμποιεῖν ὀρνίθων δίκην οὓσ δὲ καταπαύειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 32 2:4)
  • τοῖσ δὲ θηρίοισ τὸ μὲν πολύτροπον τοῦ λόγου καὶ περιττὸν καὶ φιλελεύθερον ἄγαν οὐκ ἔστιν, ἀλόγουσ δ’ ὁρμὰσ καὶ ὀρέξεισ ἔχοντα καὶ χρώμενα πλάναισ καὶ περιδρομαῖσ πολλάκισ, οὐ μακρὰν ἀλλ ὡσ ἐπ’ ἀγκύρασ τῆσ φύσεωσ σαλεύει ἢ καθάπερ ὄνῳ ὁδὸν ὑφ’ ἡνίᾳ καὶ χαλινῷ βαδίζοντι δείκνυσι τὴν εὐθεῖαν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 3:2)
  • τοῖσ δὲ θηρίοισ τὸ μὲν πραΰτροπον τοῦ λόγου καὶ περιττὸν καὶ φιλελεύθερον ἄγαν οὐκ ἔστιν, ἀλόγουσ δ’ ὁρμὰσ καὶ ὀρέξεισ ἔχοντα καὶ χρώμενα πλάναισ καὶ περιδρομαῖσ, πολλάκισ οὐ μακρὰν ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐπ’ ἀγκύρασ τῆσ φύσεωσ σαλεύει· (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 8:1)

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