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σεμνότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεμνότης σεμνότητος

Structure: σεμνοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: semno/s

Sense

  1. gravity, solemnity, dignity, majesty
  2. solemnity, pompousness, prudery

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

  • τῆσ μέντοι καλλιλογίασ τῆσ ἐκείνου καὶ τῆσ σεμνότητοσ καὶ τοῦ πλούτου τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων καὶ πολὺ ὑστερεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 5 3:2)
  • οὐ σεμνότητοσ ἔργον, ἢν ὀνώμεθα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees10)
  • κόκκοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅσα σεμνότητοσ εὐταξίασ αἰδοῦσ ἔμφασιν περιτίθησιν. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 26 4:1)
  • παρὰ τούτων οὖν πύθεσθε, τίνα τρόπον ἐβίωσα, εἰ μετὰ πάσησ σεμνότητοσ καὶ πάσησ ἀρετῆσ ἐνθάδε πεπολίτευμαι. (Flavius Josephus, 307:1)
  • "καὶ διακληρουμένων ἡ μὲν σκυθρωπὴ οὖσα κατὰ τὸν βίον καὶ σεμνότητοσ πλήρησ τὸν Ἐριφύλησ ὁρ́μον, ἡ δὲ ὡρ́ᾳ διαφέρουσα καὶ μάχλοσ οὖσα τὸν τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἔλαχε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1935)

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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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