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οὐσία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐσία οὐσίας

Structure: οὐσι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ou)=sa, ei)mi 분사의 여성형

Sense

  1. that which is one's own, one's substance, property
  2. (philosophy) Synonym of φύσις ‎(phúsis) stable being, immutable reality
  3. name of a plaster
  4. a fire-resisting substance
  5. (in magic) a material thing by which a connection is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent

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

  • "ἦν γὰρ ἡ πᾶσα οὐσία τριάκοντά που ταλάντων ἀξία ἣν ὁ γέρων κατέλιπεν, οὐχ ὥσπερ ὁ παγγέλοιοσ Θεαγένησ ἔλεγε πεντακισχιλίων· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:28)
  • οὐσία γάρ μοι ἱκανὴ καταλειφθήσεται καὶ τούτων στερηθέντι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 19 1:3)
  • οὗ δὲ ἕνεκα ἕκαστόν ἐστι καὶ γέγονε, καὶ ἡ οὐσία αὐτοῦ τυγχάνει αὕτη οὖσα. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 4:5)
  • ταῦτα πάντα συντεθέντα οὐσία ναύτου ἀνδρὸσ ἦν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:3)
  • "ἢ τὸ παράπαν οὐκ ἔστιν οὐσία ψυχῆσ ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα κεκραμένον ἔσχηκε τὴν τοῦ φρονεῖν καὶ ζῆν δύναμιν; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 215)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, οὔτε οὐσίᾳ τῆσ πολιτείασ οὔτε γένει ἀπελαυνόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀμφότερα τῶν ἀντιλεγόντων πρότεροσ ὢν ἡγοῦμαι ταύτην μόνην σωτηρίαν εἶναι τῇ πόλει, ἅπασιν Ἀθηναίοισ τῆσ πολιτείασ μετεῖναι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. that which is one's own

  2. name of a plaster

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