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περιεργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιεργία

Structure: περιεργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from peri/ergos

Sense

  1. over-exactness
  2. intermeddling, officiousness

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

  • καὶ μὴν κἀκείνουσ διεγέλα τοὺσ θαυμάσιόν τινα τὴν σπουδὴν περὶ τὰ δεῖπνα ποιουμένουσ χυμῶν τε ποικιλίαισ καὶ πεμμάτων περιεργίαισ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 33:1)

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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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