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πονηρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πονηρία

Structure: πονηρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ponhro/s

Sense

  1. a bad state or condition, badness
  2. wickedness, vice, knavery, knavish tricks, rogueries
  3. baseness, cowardice

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

  • ἐάν σου δέηται ὁ ἐχθρὸσ μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ, μὴ πεισθῆσ, ἑπτὰ γάρ εἰσι πονηρίαι ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 26:26)
  • καὶ τοὐναντίον αὖ πάλιν αἱ μὲν ἄκρατοι πονηρίαι συνεπιτείνουσι τὸ μῖσοσ. (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 6 3:1)
  • ἃ μὲν οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, οὗτοσ λέγει, ὑπόνοιαι πλασταί εἰσιν καὶ προφάσεισ ἄδικοι καὶ πονηρίαι ἐπὶ τῷ ἀποστερῆσαι ἃ προσήκει αὐτὸν ἀποδοῦναι ἐμοί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 47:1)
  • μοιχεῖαι, πλεονεξίαι, πονηρίαι, δόλοσ, ἀσέλγεια, ὀφθαλμὸσ πονηρόσ, βλασφημία, ὑπερηφανία, ἀφροσύνη· (, chapter 4 174:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bad state or condition

  2. baseness

Related

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

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