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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

  • νόμουσ δὲ γεγραμμένουσ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ οὐκ ἔθηκεν, ἀλλὰ μία τῶν καλουμένων ῥητρῶν ἔστιν αὕτη. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 13 1:1)
  • μία μὲν οὖν τῶν ῥητρῶν ἦν, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, μὴ χρῆσθαι νόμοισ ἐγγράφοισ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 13 3:1)

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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