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πολυτέλεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτέλεια

Structure: πολυτελει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polutelh/s

Sense

  1. extravagance

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

  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ οἱ πόλεμοι καὶ αἱ στρατεῖαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ αἱ πολυτέλειαι θρασεῖσ αὐτοὺσ εἶναι προετρέποντο καὶ ζῆν μὴ κοσμίωσ, ἀλλ’ ἀσώτωσ καὶ τοῖσ λῃσταῖσ παραπλησίωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 62 3:1)
  • "τότ’ οὖν αἱ νεμήσεισ ἐξέπεσον, ὅτ’ ἐπεισῆλθον αἱ πολυτέλειαι τοῖσ δείπνοισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 6:8)

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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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