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πλεονεξία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεονεξία

Structure: πλεονεξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the character and conduct of a pleone/kths, greediness, grasping, assumption, arrogance
  2. gain, advantage, one's own advantage
  3. advantage over
  4. a larger share of, gain made

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλεονεξία πλεονεξίᾱ πλεονεξίαι
Genitive πλεονεξίᾱς πλεονεξίαιν πλεονεξιῶν
Dative πλεονεξίᾱͅ πλεονεξίαιν πλεονεξίαις
Accusative πλεονεξίᾱν πλεονεξίᾱ πλεονεξίᾱς
Vocative πλεονεξίᾱ πλεονεξίᾱ πλεονεξίαι

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

  • αἱ γὰρ πλεονεξίαι τῶν πλουσίων ἀπολλύασι μᾶλλον τὴν πολιτείαν ἢ αἱ τοῦ δήμου. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 196:2)
  • ἢ οὐ πάντα γιγνώσκεισ ταῦτα ὅτι κακουργίαι τέ εἰσι καὶ ἀπάται καὶ δολώσεισ καὶ πλεονεξίαι; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 34:10)
  • ἢν δέ ποτε ἄρα ἀνάγκη γένηται καὶ ἐν τῷ ἰσοπέδῳ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐμφανοῦσ καὶ ὡπλισμένουσ ἀμφοτέρουσ μάχην συνάπτειν, ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ δή, ὦ παῖ, αἱ ἐκ πολλοῦ παρεσκευασμέναι πλεονεξίαι μέγα δύνανται. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 47:2)
  • μοιχεῖαι, πλεονεξίαι, πονηρίαι, δόλοσ, ἀσέλγεια, ὀφθαλμὸσ πονηρόσ, βλασφημία, ὑπερηφανία, ἀφροσύνη· (, chapter 4 174:1)

Synonyms

  1. gain

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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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