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σιγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιγή σιγῆς

Structure: σιγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. silence
  2. undertone, whisper

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

  • ἡσύχου γὰρ σιγῆσ περιεχούσησ τὰ πάντα καὶ νυκτὸσ ἐν ἰδίῳ τάχει μεσαζούσησ, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:14)
  • ἔστι δ’ οὗ σιγῆσ λόγοσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 15:14)
  • Σιγῆσ οὖν παρὰ πάντων γενομένησ, "ἄνδρεσ, εἶπον, ὁμόφυλοι, θανεῖν μέν, εἰ δίκαιόν ἐστιν, οὐ παραιτοῦμαι. (Flavius Josephus, 170:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ κενοῦ δι’ ἁφῆσ αἴσθησισ ἔστιν , ἀλλ’ ὅπου μὴ γίγνεται σώματοσ ἁφή, κενοῦ γίγνεται νόησισ οὔτε σιγῆσ ἀκούομεν, ἀλλά, κἂν μηδενὸσ ἀκούωμεν, σιγὴν νοοῦμεν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 4 1:2)
  • ὅθεν οὔτε πλοῦν ποιητέον οὔτε καταγωγὴν ἐν πανδοκείῳ σιγῆσ πρόφασιν, οὐδ’ ἂν πάντεσ καταγελῶσιν . (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 16 12:4)
  • σιγῇσ ὦ κάκιστ’ ἀπολουμένα; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:45)

Synonyms

  1. silence

  2. undertone

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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