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ποθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποθη

Structure: ποθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = po/qos

Sense

  1. fond desire for, from longing after
  2. want

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

  • τῶ μή τι ποθὴ κείνοιο πελέσθω. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 23:3)
  • θώρηξ καὶ καρδίη φλέγεται· ποθὴ ψυχροῦ ἠέροσ· εἰσπνέουσι δὲ μικρὸν πάνυ, ἔσ τε καὶ ἀπεπνίχθησαν, ἐμφραγείσησ τῆσ ἐσ τὸν θώρηκα διόδου. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 71)
  • ξύνηθεσ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ὑπό τε ἀνάγκαισ ἐκδεδιῃ τημ ένοισ λεπτῇ καὶ σκληροτέρῃ διαίτῃ, ἀτὰρ καὶ τοῖσι ἐσ παιδείην πονεῦσι, καὶ ἐσ τήνδε τλήμοσι, οἷσι θείησ μὲν μαθήσιοσ ποθὴ, ὀλιγοσιτίη δὲ καὶ ἀγρυπνίη, καὶ μελεδώνη λόγων τε καὶ πρηγμάτων σοφῶν· οἷσι ὑπεροψίη μὲν διαίτησ ἁδρῆσ καὶ ποικίλησ, λιμὸσ δὲ ἡ τροφὴ, καὶ ὕδωρ ποτὸν, καὶ ἐν ὕπνῳ ἀϋπνίη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 153)
  • μὴ γὰρ προησθεὶσ τῇ ἰδέᾳ οὐδεὶσ ἐρᾷ, ὁ δὲ χαίρων τῷ εἴδει οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἐρᾷ, ἀλλ’ ὅταν καὶ ἀπόντα ποθῇ καὶ τῆσ παρουσίασ ἐπιθυμῇ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 59:4)
  • Ἄλλωσ δὲ οὔτε δίψαν παύει, ἀλλ’ ἐπιπικραίνει‧ χολῶδεσ γὰρ φύσει χολώδει, καὶ ὑποχονδρίῳ κακόν‧ καὶ κάκιστον ἑωυτοῦ καὶ χολωδέστατον καὶ φιλαδυναμώτατον, ὅταν ἐσ κενεότητα ἐσέλθη‧ καὶ σπληνὸσ δὲ αὐξητικὸν καὶ ἤπατόσ ἐστιν, ὁκόταν πεπυρωμένον ἦ‧ καὶ ἐγκλυδαστικόν τε καὶ ἐπιπολαστικόν‧ βραδύπορόν τε γάρ ἐστι διὰ τὸ ὑπόψυχρον καὶ ἄπεπτον εἶναι‧ καὶ οὔτε διαχωρητικὸν, οὔτε διουρητικόν‧ προσβλάπτει δέ τι καὶ διὰ τόδε, ὅτι ἄκοπρόν ἐστι φύσει‧ ἢν δὲ δὴ καὶ ποδῶν ψυχρῶν ποτε ἐόντων ποθῇ, πάντα ταῦτα πολλαπλασίωσ βλάπτει, ἐσ ὅ τι ἂν αὐτέων ὁρμήσῃ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 17.3)

Synonyms

  1. fond desire for

  2. want

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

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