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πεῖρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεῖρα πεῖρας

Structure: πειρ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. trial, experiment, attempt

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

  • Ἥψατο δὲ καὶ δικαίων πεῖρα θανάτου, καὶ θραῦσισ ἐν ἐρήμῳ ἐγένετο πλήθουσ. ἀλλ̓ οὐκ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἔμεινεν ἡ ὀργή. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:20)
  • τούτοισ εἶξεν ὁ ὀλοθρεύων, ταῦτα δὲ ἐφοβήθησαν. ἦν γὰρ μόνη ἡ πεῖρα τῆσ ὀργῆσ ἱκανή. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:25)
  • Οὐκ ἀσφαλὴσ ἡ πεῖρα, ὦ Πρωτεῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, menelaus and proteus, chapter 2 1:4)
  • μοι ἡ πεῖρα ἐγεγένητο, μηδέ, ὦ θεοί, γένοιτο· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 1:4)
  • τίσ πεῖρα, τίσ ἐπίνοι’; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode45)
  • καὶ τῷ Λευὶ εἶπε. δότε Λευὶ δήλουσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀλήθειαν αὐτοῦ, τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁσίῳ, ὃν ἐπείρασαν αὐτὸν ἐν πείρᾳ, ἐλοιδόρησαν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ὕδατοσ ἀντιλογίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:8)
  • ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν ὁπόσα ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἐπιτεχνῶνται αὐτῷ ἄρνεια κρέα καὶ χελώνασ εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἕψοντεσ, ὥστε εἰ μὴ τὴν ῥῖνα ὀξὺσ ἦν, κἂν ἀπῆλθεν αὐτοῦ ὁ Λυδὸσ καταγελῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. trial

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