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ὄσφρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄσφρησις ὄσφρησεως

Structure: ὀσφρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the sense of smell, smell

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄσφρησις ὀσφρήσει ὀσφρήσεις
Genitive ὀσφρήσεως ὀσφρήσοιν ὀσφρήσεων
Dative ὀσφρήσει ὀσφρήσοιν ὀσφρήσεσιν*
Accusative ό̓σφρησιν ὀσφρήσει ὀσφρήσεις
Vocative ό̓σφρησι ὀσφρήσει ὀσφρήσεις

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

  • ἦ ὅτι μάλιστα ναυτίαν κινεῖ τῶν αἰσθήσεων ἡ ὄσφρησισ, τῶν δὲ παθῶν ὁ φόβοσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 112)
  • τῶν δ’ ἑπτὰ μερῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ πέντε μέν εἰσι τὰ αἰσθητήρια, ὁρ́ασισ ὄσφρησισ ἀκοὴ γεῦσισ καὶ ἁφή· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 3:1)
  • ἦχοι ὤτων, βαρυοδμίη · ὀργίλοι, πικρόχολοι παραλόγωσ· κατέπεσον γοῦν τινεσ ὑπὸ προφάσιοσ, ἐξ ἀθυμίησ · μετεξέτεροι δὲ Ῥεύματι ποταμοῦ ἀτενὲσ ἐνιδόντεσ, ἢ τροχῷ δινευμένῳ, ἢ βέμβικι ἑλισσομένῃ · ἄλλοτε δὲ ὄσφρησισ βαρεῶν ὀσμῶν κατέβαλε, ὥσπερ γαγάτου λίθου. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 4)
  • ἀρήγει καὶ ὄσφρησισ δριμέων, χρίσιεσ, ἄκρων δεσμόσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 29)
  • ἀνάτριψισ ἄκρων καὶ προσώπου· ὄσφρησισ ὄξεοσ, γλήχωνοσ, ἡδυόσμου, καὶ τάδε ξὺν ὄξεϊ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 82)

Synonyms

  1. the sense of smell

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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