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πολυπειρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυπειρία

Structure: πολυπειρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pei=ra

Sense

  1. great experience

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

  • στέφανοσ γερόντων πολυπειρία, καὶ τὸ καύχημα αὐτῶν φόβοσ Κυρίου. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 25:6)
  • οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ δεινὸν οὐδὲ σφοδρὸν ἀπειρία τῶν πάντων οὐδὲ μέγιστον κακόν, ἀλλ’ ἡ πολυπειρία καὶ πολυμαθία μετὰ κακῆσ ἀγωγῆσ γίγνεται πολὺ τούτων μείζων ζημία. (Plato, Laws, book 7 193:2)

Synonyms

  1. great experience

Related

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

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