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παροιμίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροιμίᾱ παροιμίας

Structure: παροιμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: oi)=mos

Sense

  1. a byword, saying, proverb, maxim
  2. a dark saying, parable

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

  • πᾶσαν διήγησιν θείαν θέλε ἀκροᾶσθαι, καὶ παροιμίαι συνέσεωσ μὴ ἐκφευγέτωσάν σε. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 6:35)
  • ὅτι Κηφισόδωροσ ὁ Ἰσοκράτουσ μαθητὴσ ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ Ἀριστοτέλουσ τέσσαρα δ’ ἐστὶ ταῦτα βιβλία ἐπιτιμᾷ τῷ φιλοσόφῳ ὡσ οὐ ποιήσαντι λόγου ἄξιον τὸ παροιμίασ ἀθροῖσαι, Ἀντιφάνουσ ὅλον ποιήσαντοσ δρᾶμα τὸ ἐπιγραφόμενον Παροιμίαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5271)
  • αἱ δὲ παροιμίαι ἡ μέν φησιν αὐτόματοι δ’ ἀγαθοὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐπὶ δαῖτασ ἰάσιν, ἡ δέ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 5 1:3)
  • καὶ αἱ παροιμίαι δὲ κατὰ τὸ ἄρρεν λέγουσι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 89 2:9)
  • καὶ ἐπεὶ τὸ κατὰ φύσιν ἡδύ, τὰ συγγενῆ δὲ κατὰ φύσιν ἀλλήλοισ ἐστίν, πάντα τὰ συγγενῆ καὶ ὅμοια ἡδέα ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ, οἱο͂ν ἄνθρωποσ ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ ἵπποσ ἵππῳ καὶ νέοσ νέῳ, ὅθεν καὶ αἱ παροιμίαι εἴρηνται, ὡσ "ἧλιξ ἥλικα τέρπει" , καὶ "ὡσ αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον" , καὶ "ἔγνω δὲ θὴρ θῆρα" , "καὶ γὰρ κολοιὸσ παρὰ κολοιόν" , καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τοιαῦτα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 25:1)
  • ΠΑΡΟΙΜΙΑΙ Σολομῶντοσ υἱοῦ Δαυίδ, ὃσ ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἰσραήλ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a byword

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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