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ὁσία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁσία

Structure: ὁσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of o(/sios

Sense

  1. divine law, natural law, lawful, nefas est, sanctioned
  2. the service owed by man to God, the due rites
  3. form's sake

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἔμπησ ὀλίγῳ περιδείδια, μή τι πάθῃσι, τῷδε τάφῳ πολλῶν οὐχ ὁσίαι παλάμαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1152)
  • τῶν μὲν ἀρωγοὶ κατὰ γῆσ ἤδη, τῶν δὲ κρατούντων χέρεσ οὐχ ὅσιαι στυγερῶν τούτων· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, anapests4)

Synonyms

  1. form's sake

Related

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

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