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ῥητορεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥητορεία

Structure: ῥητορει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from r(htoreu/w

Sense

  1. skill in public speaking, eloquence, oratory, rhetoric
  2. a piece of oratory, set speech

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

  • ἄναγε τὰσ ὀφρῦσ, ὦ φίλε Φαίδιμε, καὶ διέγειρε σεαυτὸν ἡμῖν τοῖσ ἐνάλοισ καὶ νησιώταισ οὐ παιδιὰ τὸ χρῆμα τοῦ λόγου γέγονεν, ἀλλ’ ἐρρωμένοσ ἀγὼν καὶ ῥητορεία κιγκλίδων ἐπιδέουσα καὶ βήματοσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 232)
  • τούτων δ’ ἐστί που στρατηγία καὶ δικαστικὴ καὶ ὅση βασιλικῇ κοινωνοῦσα ῥητορεία πείθουσα τὸ δίκαιον συνδιακυβερνᾷ τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι πράξεισ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 281:2)
  • τούτων δέ ἐστι δή που στρατηγία καὶ δικαστικὴ καὶ ὅση βασιλικῇ κοινωνοῦσα ῥητορεία πείθουσα τὸ δίκαιον συγκυβερνᾷ τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι πράξεισ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 108:9)

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

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