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θεσμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεσμός

Etym.: poet. qesma/ Soph.

Sense

  1. that which is laid down and established, a law, ordinance, the established law
  2. an institution, ordinance

Examples

  • "θεσμόσ τε Ἀδραστείασ ὅδε, ἥτισ ἂν ψυχὴ θεῷ ξυνοπαδὸσ γενομένη· (Plutarch, De fato, section 13)
  • "θεσμόσ τε Ἀδραστείασ ὅδε· (Plutarch, De fato, section 4 10:3)
  • θεσμὸσ δὲ καὶ νόμοσ ὑπάρχει τῷ τὰ ἀκόλουθα τοῖσ γιγνομένοισ πολιτικῶσ διατετάχθαι. (Plutarch, De fato, section 4 11:4)
  • ἤδη πυκνοὶ δ’ ᾄττουσιν Ἡφαίστου κύνεσ κούφωσ πρὸσ αἴθραν, οἷσ τό γίνεσθαί θ’ ἅμα καὶ τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦ βίου συνῆψέ τισ μόνοισ ἀνάγκησ θεσμὸσ οὐχ ὁρώμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 23 2:4)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν ταῦτα ἀπεργαζόμενοσ θεσμὸσ νόμοσ ἂν ὀρθῶσ ὑμῖν εἰή κείμενοσ, ὄντωσ εὐδαίμονασ ἀποτελῶν τοὺσ χρωμένουσ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 8 23:2)

Synonyms

  1. that which is laid down and established

  2. an institution

Related

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

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