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πραότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πραότης πραότητος

Structure: πραοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from pra=os

Sense

  1. mildness, gentleness

Declension

Third 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

  • πραότητοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι φέρειν μετρίωσ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ὀλιγωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ταχέωσ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τιμωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐκίνητον εἶναι πρὸσ τὰσ ὀργάσ, ἄπικρον δὲ τῷ ἤθει καὶ ἀφιλόνεικον, ἔχοντα τὸ ἠρεμαῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ στάσιμον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 15:3)
  • τοὺσ δὲ τὴν ἀρετὴν ζηλοῦντασ αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ καλὸν καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἀφομοιοῦντασ ἑαυτοὺσ ἡδόμενοσ αὔξει καὶ μεταδίδωσι τῆσ περὶ αὐτὸν εὐνομίασ καὶ δίκησ καὶ ἀληθείασ καὶ πραότητοσ· (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 3 12:1)
  • ὅπερ γὰρ [καὶ ἐν τ]ῷ δήμῳ εἶ[πον, π]ολλὰ ὑμεῖσ, ὦ [ἄνδρ]εσ δικασταί, δί[δοτε ἑ]κόντεσ τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ῥήτορσιν ὠφελεῖσθαι, οὐ τῶν νόμων αὐτοῖσ δεδωκότων τοῦτο ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ὑμετέρασ πραότητοσ καὶ φιλανθρωπίασ· (Hyperides, Speeches, 6:4)
  • καὶ πραότητοσ; (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 45 3:1)
  • "μετὰ δὲ Σωκράτην καὶ Πλάτωνα προσμάχεται Στίλπωνι καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀληθινὰ δόγματα καὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ τάνδρόσ, οἷσ ἑαυτόν τε κατεκόσμει καὶ πατρίδα καὶ φίλουσ καὶ τῶν βασιλέων τοὺσ περὶ αὐτὸν σπουδάσαντασ, οὐ γέγραφε, οὐδ’ ὅσον ἦν φρόνημα τῇ ψυχῇ μετὰ πραότητοσ καὶ μετριοπαθείασ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 221)
  • καὶ ἔντεινον καὶ κατευοδοῦ καὶ βασίλευε ἕνεκεν ἀληθείασ καὶ πρᾳότητοσ καὶ δικαιοσύνησ, καὶ ὁδηγήσει σε θαυμαστῶσ ἡ δεξιά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 44:5)
  • ᾨδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν. ‐ ΜΝΗΣΘΗΤΙ, Κύριε, τοῦ Δαυί̈δ καὶ πάσησ τῆσ πρᾳότητοσ αὐτοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 131:1)

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

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