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παραίνεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραίνεσις παραίνεσεως

Structure: παραινεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an exhortation, address, advice or counsel given by, advice given for or towards, to recommend

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

  • ἔκρινα τοίνυν ταύτην ἀγαγέσθαι πρὸσ συμβίωσιν, εἰδὼσ ὅτι ἔσται μοι σύμβουλοσ ἀγαθῶν καὶ παραίνεσισ φροντίδων καὶ λύπησ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 8:9)
  • τὸ γὰρ παραινεῖν καὶ ἀξιοῦν ῥήματα ὄντα ὀνοματικὰ γέγονεν παραίνεσισ καὶ ἀξίωσισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 54)
  • περιττὴ γάρ, οἶμαι, ἡ παραίνεσισ πρὸσ τὰ πάντωσ οὕτω γενησόμενα. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 13:4)
  • λε Παραίνεσισ πρὸσ τὸ θύειν τοῖσ ἐφόροισ τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποισ ἐπιτηδευμάτων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr37)
  • ἢν δὲ λάθῃσ αὖθισ εἰσ τὴν λιχνείαν κατολισθών, ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀποπεπλήρωται ἡ παραίνεσισ, σὺ δὲ σεαυτὸν αἰτιάσῃ, ἄν γε καὶ ξυνῇσ χείρων γενόμενοσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 25:7)

Synonyms

  1. an exhortation

Related

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

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