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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

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)
  • περὶ γὰρ τὴν διὰ τῆσ ὄψεωσ ἡδονὴν τῶν καλῶν ἄνευ ἐπιθυμίασ ἀφροδισίων, ἢ λύπην τῶν αἰσχρῶν, καὶ περὶ τὴν διὰ τῆσ ἀκοῆσ τῶν εὐαρμόστων ἢ ἀναρμόστων, ἔτι δὲ πρὸσ τὰσ δι’ ὀσφρήσεωσ, τάσ τε ἀπὸ εὐωδίασ καὶ τὰσ ἀπὸ δυσωδίασ, οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ σώφρων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 61:1)
  • περὶ δὲ τὰσ δι’ ὄψεωσ ἢ ἀκοῆσ ἢ ὀσφρήσεωσ ἡδονὰσ οὐθεὶσ λέγεται ἀκόλαστοσ, ἐὰν ὑπερβάλλῃ, ἀλλ’ ἄνευ ὀνείδουσ τὰσ ἁμαρτίασ ψέγομεν ταύτασ, καὶ ὅλωσ περὶ ὅσα μὴ λέγονται ἐγκρατεῖσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 70:1)
  • ὁμοίωσ καὶ διὰ τῆσ ἁφῆσ καὶ τῆσ ὀσφρήσεωσ; (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 3:2)
  • 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

Related

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

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