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πενία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενία

Structure: πενι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. poverty, need

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

  • ἢ μόνον ἀπειλεῖν στάντα ἐν τῇ πόλει σύμπασι τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ, ὡσ εἰ μὴ φήσουσιν εἶναι θεοὺσ καὶ διανοηθήσονται δοξάζοντεσ τοιούτουσ οἱούσ φησὶν ὁ νόμοσ ‐ καὶ περὶ καλῶν καὶ δικαίων καὶ περὶ ἁπάντων τῶν μεγίστων ὁ αὐτὸσ λόγοσ, ὅσα δὲ πρὸσ ἀρετὴν τείνει καὶ κακίαν, ὡσ δεῖ ταῦτα οὕτω πράττειν διανοουμένουσ ὅπῃπερ ἂν ὁ νομοθέτησ ὑφηγήσηται γράφων ‐ ὃσ δ’ ἂν μὴ παρέχηται ἑαυτὸν τοῖσ νόμοισ εὐπειθῆ, τὸν μὲν δεῖν τεθνάναι, τὸν δέ τινα πληγαῖσ καὶ δεσμοῖσ, τὸν δὲ ἀτιμίαισ, ἄλλουσ δὲ πενίαισ κολάζεσθαι καὶ φυγαῖσ· (Plato, Laws, book 10 35:4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἄλλα ἀλλήλοισ τε καὶ πλούτοισ καὶ πενίαισ, τὰ δὲ νόσοισ, τὰ δ’ ὑγιείαισ μεμεῖχθαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ μεσοῦν τούτων. (Plato, Republic, book 10 457:1)

Synonyms

  1. poverty

Related

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

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