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παραψυχή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραψυχή

Structure: παραψυχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from parayu/_xw

Sense

  1. cooling, refreshment, consolation

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

  • ἔχει δὲ δή τιν’ ἀλγέων παραψυχήν· (Euripides, episode 4:5)
  • "ἢ τὴν τούτων ὡρ́αν παραψυχὴν καὶ παραμυθίαν τῆσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐρωμένων ὡρ́ασ ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ χαίροντεσ ἔχουσιν αὑτοῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 796)
  • ἵν’ οὖν, εἰ καὶ μηδὲν ἄλλο, ταύτην γε ἔχωμεν παραψυχήν, τὸ καὶ τοῦτον ὁρᾶν ἡσυχίαν ἄγοντα, βοηθήσαθ’ ἡμῖν, ἐλεήσατε τοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἡμῶν τετελευτηκότασ, ἀναγκάσατ’ αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆσ τῆσ ἐνδείξεωσ ἀπολογεῖσθαι, καὶ τοιοῦτοι γένεσθ’ αὐτῷ δικασταὶ τῶν λεγομένων οἱο͂σ ἡμῶν οὗτοσ ἐγένετο κατήγοροσ, ὃσ ἐξαπατήσασ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ οὐκ ἠθέλησε τιμήσασθαι μετρίου τινὸσ τιμήματοσ τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἐμῷ, πολλὰ ἐμοῦ δεηθέντοσ καὶ τοῦτον ἱκετεύσαντοσ πρὸσ τῶν γονάτων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὴν πόλιν προδεδωκότι τῷ πατρὶ δέκα ταλάντων ἐτιμήσατο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 100:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ἀντὶ μικροῦ χρόνου πολὺν καὶ τὸν ἅπαντ’ εὔκλειαν ἀγήρω καταλείπουσιν, ἐν ᾗ καὶ παῖδεσ οἱ τούτων ὀνομαστοὶ τραφήσονται καὶ γονεῖσ οἱ τούτων περίβλεπτοι γηροτροφήσονται, παραψυχὴν τῷ πένθει τὴν τούτων εὔκλειαν ἔχοντεσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 41:3)

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

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