Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παραμυθία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραμυθία

Structure: παραμυθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from paramu_qe/omai

Sense

  1. encouragement, exhortation, persuasion
  2. consolation, diversion
  3. relief from, abatement of

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παραμυθία παραμυθίᾱ παραμυθίαι
Genitive παραμυθίᾱς παραμυθίαιν παραμυθιῶν
Dative παραμυθίᾱͅ παραμυθίαιν παραμυθίαις
Accusative παραμυθίᾱν παραμυθίᾱ παραμυθίᾱς
Vocative παραμυθίᾱ παραμυθίᾱ παραμυθίαι

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

  • τούτων γὰρ οὐδετέραν ἰσχῦσαι δυνατὸν μὴ πρώτησ ἐκείνησ ὑπούσησ, δι’ ἣν βουλομένοισ ἐγίγνοντο καὶ τρόπον τινὰ προειδόσιν αὐτοῖσ αἵ τε προστάξεισ καὶ παραμυθίαι, τῶν μὲν ὀρθῶσ καὶ ξυμφώνωσ ἐξηγουμένων ποιητῶνκαὶ νομοθετῶν τῇ τε ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ταῖσ ἐννοίαισ, τῶν δὲ ἀποπλανωμένων ἔν τισιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 51:3)
  • πολλὰ μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἄλλα ἐπεσήμηνεν ὁ θεὸσ ἐκ τῶν ἐφεστηκότων ἀεὶ κινδύνων ἐξαρπάζων, οἳ πυκνοὶ νυκτὸσ ἑκάστησ καὶ ἡμέρασ ἦσαν, ἄλλοτε ἄλλοι προσβάλλοντεσ, τότε δὲ ἐπανιόντεσ οἱ αὐτοὶ, καὶ ὁπότε ἀπαλλαγείη τισ, ἀντιλαμβάνοντεσ ἕτεροι, καὶ πρὸσ ἕκαστα τούτων ἀλεξιφάρμακα ᾔει παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ παραμυθίαι παντοῖαι καὶ ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:8)

Synonyms

  1. encouragement

  2. consolation

  3. relief from

Related

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION