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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πενία πενίᾱ πενίαι
Genitive πενίᾱς πενίαιν πενιῶν
Dative πενίᾱͅ πενίαιν πενίαις
Accusative πενίᾱν πενίᾱ πενίᾱς
Vocative πενίᾱ πενίᾱ πενίαι

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

  • πενίαν καὶ ἀτιμίαν ἀφαιρεῖται παιδεία, ὁ δὲ φυλάσσων ἐλέγχουσ δοξασθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 13:19)
  • μάταιον λόγον καὶ ψευδῆ μακράν μου ποίησον, πλοῦτον δὲ καὶ πενίαν μή μοι δῷσ, σύνταξόν δέ μοι τὰ δέοντα καὶ τὰ αὐτάρκη, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:34)
  • μία μοι ἴσωσ ἐκείνη ἄγκυρα ἔτι ἄβροχοσ, ὀδύρεσθαι τὸ γῆρασ καὶ τὴν νόσον καὶ μετὰ τούτων τὴν πενίαν πάντα ποιεῖν καὶ πάσχειν ἀναπείθουσαν, ὡσ ἐκφύγοι τισ αὐτήν· (Lucian, Apologia 23:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Θεόγνιδοσ κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ λέγω, τίσ οὐκ οἶδεν, οὐκ ἀπαξιοῦντοσ, καὶ ἐσ βαθυκήτεα πόντον σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ ῥιπτεῖν καὶ κατὰ κρημνῶν γε ἠλιβάτων, εἰ μέλλει τισ οὕτωσ ἀποδράσεσθαι τὴν πενίαν; (Lucian, Apologia 23:4)
  • οὐδ’ αὖ κατὰ πενίαν, ἔχων δέ τι ἀγαθὸν δρᾶσαι τὴν πόλιν, ἀξιώματοσ ἀφανείᾳ κεκώλυται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 44)

Synonyms

  1. poverty

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

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