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περιωπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιωπή

Structure: περιωπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: w)/y

Sense

  1. a place commanding a wide view, bird's-eye view
  2. circumspection, caution

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

  • Γλωσσηματικὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἀπηρχαιωμένα καὶ δυσείκαστα τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ἐστι τό τε ἀκραιφνέσ καὶ ὁ ἐπιλογισμόσ καὶ ἡ περιωπή καὶ ἡ ἀνακωχή καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 31)
  • σοὶ δὲ εἰ μὲν ἐσ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνελθεῖν δυνατὸν ἦν, οὐκ ἂν ἐκάμνομεν ἐκ περιωπῆσ γὰρ ἂν ἀκριβῶσ ἅπαντα καθεώρασ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 2:11)
  • καὶ μὴν εὖ εἰδέναι χρή σε, ὡσ κἂν ἐκ περιωπῆσ μόνον ἀπίδῃσ εἰσ αὐτήν, ἀχανῆ σε καὶ τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἀκινητότερον ἀποφανεῖ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 1:5)
  • καὶ ἥ τε οἰκετεία εἰσ σὲ ἀποβλέπει καὶ τῶν παρόντων ἕκαστοσ ὅ τι πράξεισ ἐπιτηροῦσιν, οὐδὲ αὐτῷ δὲ ἀμελὲσ τῷ πλουσίῳ τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ καὶ προεῖπέ τισι τῶν οἰκετῶν ἐπισκοπεῖν εἴ πωσ εἰσ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἢ εἰσ τὴν γυναῖκα πολλάκισ ἐκ περιωπῆσ ἀποβλέψεισ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 15:3)
  • ’ ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐδεόμην δείξοντόσ μοι τοῦ Ιὤνοσ πολὺ πρότερον αὐτὰ ἐκ περιωπῆσ ἑωρακώσ. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 11:6)
  • ἧστο γὰρ ἐκτὸσ ἀγῶνοσ ὑπέρτατοσ ἐν περιωπῇ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 41:4)

Synonyms

  1. circumspection

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

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