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περιουσία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιουσία

Structure: περιουσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: peri/eimi, supersum

Sense

  1. that which is over and above, surplus, abundance, plenty
  2. abundance, plenty, wealth, with plenty of other resources, ex abundanti, advantage, an advantage
  3. superiority
  4. a being saved, survival, chance of being saved?

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

  • τῆσ γὰρ ἐμπορίασ οὐκ οὔσησ, οὐδὲ ἐπιμιγνύντεσ ἀδεῶσ ἀλλήλοισ οὔτε κατὰ γῆν οὔτε διὰ θαλάσσησ, νεμόμενοί τε τὰ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι ὅσον ἀποζῆν καὶ περιουσίαν χρημάτων οὐκ ἔχοντεσ, οὔτε γῆν φυτεύοντεσ, ἄδηλον ὂν πότε τισ ἐπελθὼν καὶ ἅμ’ ἀτειχίστων ὄντων ἄλλοσ ἀφαιρήσεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 1:2)
  • βραχύσ γε μὴν οὗτοσ, ὡσ μὲν ἰδιώτῃ δηλῶσαι βουλομένῳ τὰ πράγματα ἀποχρῶν, ὡσ δὲ ῥήτορι περιουσίαν δυνάμεωσ ἐνδείξασθαι ζητοῦντι οὐχ ἱκανόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 52)
  • ὅταν γὰρ αὐτῶν τὴν περιουσίαν θαυμάσωσιν καὶ τὸν χρυσὸν ἐπαινέσωσιν καὶ τοὺσ πυλῶνασ ἐώθεν ἐμπλήσωσιν καὶ προσελθόντεσ ὥσπερ δεσπότασ προσείπωσιν, τί καὶ φρονήσειν ἐκείνουσ εἰκόσ ἐστιν; (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 23:2)
  • Ἀγαθοκλῆσ γὰρ οὗτοσ ὁ Σάμιοσ οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ ἐγένετο, ἄριστοσ μὲν πρὸσ φιλίαν, ὡσ ἔδειξεν, τὰ ἄλλα δὲ οὐδὲν ἀμείνων Σαμίων τῶν πολλῶν οὔτε ἐσ τὸ γένοσ οὔτε ἐσ τὴν ἄλλην περιουσίαν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 12:3)
  • τῆσ γὰρ ἐμπορίασ οὐκ οὔσησ, οὐδ’ ἐπιμιγνύντεσ ἀδεῶσ ἀλλήλοισ οὔτε κατὰ γῆν οὔτε διὰ θαλάσσησ, νεμόμενοί τε τὰ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι, ὅσον ἀποζῆν, καὶ περιουσίαν χρημάτων οὐκ ἔχοντεσ οὐδὲ γῆν φυτεύοντεσ γνώμῃ δεδουλωμένοι ὡσ ἐπὶ Λακεδαιμονίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 25 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. that which is over and above

  2. abundance

  3. superiority

Related

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

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