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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

  • 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)
  • καὶ ὧν ἡ ὑπεροχὴ αἱρετωτέρα ἢ καλλίων, οἱο͂ν τὸ ἀκριβῶσ ὁρᾶν αἱρετώτερον τοῦ ὀσφραίνεσθαι καὶ γὰρ ὄψισ ὀσφρήσεωσ, καὶ τὸ φιλεταιρώτερον εἶναι τοῦ φιλοχρηματώτερον μᾶλλον κάλλιον, ὥστε καὶ φιλεταιρία φιλοχρηματίασ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 18:1)
  • ἄλυποι γάρ εἰσιν αἵ τε μαθηματικαὶ καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ αἱ διὰ τῆσ ὀσφρήσεωσ, καὶ ἀκροάματα δὲ καὶ ὁράματα πολλὰ καὶ μνῆμαι καὶ ἐλπίδεσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 28:2)

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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