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ῥῆσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥῆσις ῥῆσεως

Structure: ῥησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w, e)rw=

Sense

  1. a saying, speaking, speech, phrase
  2. a resolution, declaration
  3. a tale, legend
  4. a phrase or passage, a speech in a play

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

  • ἕτεροσ δέ τισ οὐκ ἀγεννὴσ λόγοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάνυ γενναῖοσ, ὥσ φησι, καὶ μεταξύ μου λέγοντοσ ὑπέκρουε καὶ διακόπτειν ἐπειρᾶτο τὴν ῥῆσιν καὶ ἐπειδὴ πέπαυμαι, οὐκ ἀληθῆ ταῦτα λέγειν φησὶ με, ἀλλὰ θαυμάζειν, εἰ φάσκοιμι ἐπιτηδειότερον εἶναι πρὸσ λόγων ἐπίδειξιν οἴκου κάλλοσ γραφῇ καὶ χρυσῷ κεκοσμημένον αὐτὸ γάρ που τοὐναντίον ἀποβαίνειν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 14:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ οἱο͂́ν τε, ὦ Ῥητορική, μόνον αὐτὸν ἀπολογεῖσθαι κατὰ σχῆμα τοῦ Διαλόγου, ἀλλὰ ῥῆσιν καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰπάτω. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 29:7)
  • ἐκείνου μέντοι, ὦ Σόλων, μέμνησό μοι παρὰ τὴν ῥῆσιν, ὅτι πρὸσ ἄνδρα βάρβαρον ἐρεῖσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 18:8)
  • ῥῆσιν γοῦν οὕτω μακρὰν καὶ κατηγορίαν τοσαύτην ἐξενήνοχασ κατὰ τοῦ συγγράμματοσ, ὥστε μηδὲ ἐλπίδα μοι ἀπολογίασ ἔτι καταλείπεσθαι. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 15:2)
  • δεῖ γάρ με λέξαι τῷ χορῷ ῥῆσιν μακράν· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:13)
  • καὶ ὑπεύθυνοι ἐγένοντο ἐλέγχοισ, ἰδοὺ προήσομαι ὑμῖν ἐμῆσ πνοῆσ ρῆσιν, διδάξω δὲ ὑμᾶσ τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 1:23)
  • ΥΙΕ, ἐὰν δεξάμενοσ ρῆσιν ἐμῆσ ἐντολῆσ κρύψῃσ παρὰ σεαυτῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 2:1)
  • μηδὲ παρίδῃσ ρῆσιν ἐμοῦ στόματοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

  2. a resolution

  3. a tale

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

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