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ῥήτρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥήτρα

Structure: ῥητρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

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

Sense

  1. a verbal agreement, bargain, covenant
  2. the unwritten laws, a decree, ordinance
  3. speech, a word

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

  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτο ἄν τισ εἴποι, τῇ μὲν Γράγχων πολιτείᾳ τοὺσ μεγίστουσ ἐνίστασθαι Ῥωμαίων, οἷσ δὲ Ἆγισ ἐνεχείρησε, Κλεομένησ δὲ τὸ ἔργον ἐπέθηκε, τῶν παραδειγμάτων τὸ κάλλιστον ὑπέκειτο καὶ μεγαλοπρεπέστατον, αἱ πάτριοι ῥῆτραι περὶ σωφροσύνησ καὶ ἰσότητοσ, ὧν τούτοισ μὲν ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ, ἐκείνῳ δὲ ὁ Πύθιοσ βεβαιωτήσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi, chapter 2 3:2)
  • "ὃ δ’ ἐστὶ μέγιστον, αἱ ῥῆτραι, δι’ ὧν ἐκόσμησε τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων πολιτείαν Λυκοῦργοσ, ἐδόθησαν αὐτῷ καταλογάδην. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 1915)

Synonyms

  1. a verbal agreement

  2. the unwritten laws

  3. speech

Related

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

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