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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

  • γραφείσησ δὲ τῆσ ῥήτρασ, καὶ τῶν γερόντων εἰσ ταὐτὸ ταῖσ γνώμαισ οὐ συμφερομένων, ἐκκλησίαν συναγαγὼν ὁ Λύσανδροσ αὐτόσ τε διελέχθη τοῖσ πολίταισ, καὶ Μανδροκλείδασ καὶ Ἀγησίλαοσ ἐδέοντο μὴ δι’ ὀλίγουσ ἐντρυφῶντασ αὐτοῖσ περιιδεῖν ἐρριμμένον τὸ ἀξίωμα τῆσ Σπάρτησ, ἀλλὰ τῶν τε προτέρων χρησμῶν μνημονεῦσαι, τὴν φιλοχρημοσύνην ὡσ ὀλέθριον τῇ Σπάρτῃ φυλάττεσθαι διακελευομένων, καὶ τῶν ἔναγχοσ ἐκ Πασιφάασ κεκομισμένων αὐτοῖσ. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 9 1:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν τοιαῦτα νομοθετήματα ῥήτρασ ὠνόμασεν, ὡσ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ κομιζόμενα καὶ χρησμοὺσ ὄντα. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 13 6:2)

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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