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πολυφροσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυφροσύνη

Structure: πολυφροσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/frwn

Sense

  1. fulness of understanding, great shrewdness

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πολυφροσύνη πολυφροσύνᾱ πολυφροσύναι
Genitive πολυφροσύνης πολυφροσύναιν πολυφροσυνῶν
Dative πολυφροσύνῃ πολυφροσύναιν πολυφροσύναις
Accusative πολυφροσύνην πολυφροσύνᾱ πολυφροσύνᾱς
Vocative πολυφροσύνη πολυφροσύνᾱ πολυφροσύναι

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἄρα καὶ κεῖθεν πάλιν ἤλυθε Σίσυφοσ ἡρ́ωσ ἐσ φάοσ ἠελίου σφῇσι πολυφροσύναισ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389406)
  • ὡσ δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ἐσ τὸν βασιλέα ἀνηνείχθη, ἐκπεπλῆχθαι μὲν ἐπὶ τῇ πολυφροσύνῃ τε καὶ τόλμῃ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, τέλοσ δὲ διανέμοντα ἐσ πάσασ τὰσ πόλισ ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι ἀδείην τε διδόντα καὶ μεγάλα ὑποδεκόμενον ἐλθόντι ἐσ ὄψιν τὴν ἑωυτοῦ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 121F 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. fulness of understanding

Similar forms

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

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