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σόφισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σόφισμα σόφισματος

Structure: σοφισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from sofi/zw

Sense

any skilful act, the skilful dressing of food
a clever device, contrivance
a sly trick, artifice, a stage-trick, claptrap
a captious argument, a quibble, fallacy, sophism

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	σόφισμα	σοφίσματε	σοφίσματα
Genitive	σοφίσματος	σοφισμάτοιν	σοφισμάτων
Dative	σοφίσματι	σοφισμάτοιν	σοφίσμασιν*
Accusative	σόφισμα	σοφίσματε	σοφίσματα
Vocative	σόφισμα	σοφίσματε	σοφίσματα

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

τὸ Δαιδάλειον γὰρ ἐκεῖνο σόφισμα τῶν πτερῶν καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐμηχανησάμην. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 2:14)
ἀτὰρ τί δὴ σόφισμα τοῦθ’ ἡγούμενοι ἐσ τήνδε παῖδα ψῆφον ὡρ́ισαν φόνου; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:4)
τὸ γὰρ σόφισμα δημοτικὸν καὶ χρήσιμον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 6:32)
οἱο͂ν μέντοι τῇ περὶ τῶν τρεσάντων ἀπορίᾳ προσήγαγεν ὁ Ἀγησίλαοσ ἰάμα μετὰ τὴν ἐν Λεύκτροισ ἀτυχίαν, κελεύσασ τοὺσ νόμουσ ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν καθεύδειν, οὐ γέγονεν ἄλλο σόφισμα πολιτικόν, οὐδ’ ἔχομέν τι τοῦ Πομπηϊού παραπλήσιον, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον οὐδ’ οἷσ αὐτὸσ ἐτίθει νόμοισ ᾤετο δεῖν ἐμμένειν, τὸ δύνασθαι μέγα τοῖσ φίλοισ ἐνδεικνύμενοσ, ὁ δὲ εἰσ ἀνάγκην καταστὰσ τοῦ λῦσαι τοὺσ νόμουσ ἐπὶ τῷ σῶσαι τοὺσ πολίτασ, ἐξεῦρε τρόπον ᾧ μήτε ἐκείνουσ βλάψουσι μήτε ὅπωσ οὐ βλάψωσι λυθήσονται. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey, chapter 2 2:1)
αἵ θ’ αἱματωποὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραὶ θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξισ Ἑλλάδι. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:4)

Synonyms

a clever device
- κατασκεύασμα (an arrangement, contrivance, device)
a sly trick
- τέχνασμα (an artifice, trick)

παλινῳδία (a palinode or recantation)
προστακτικός (of or for commanding)
ἀγωνιστέος (one must contend)
εὑρετής (an inventor)
κατασκευαστικός (fitted for providing)
Ἀσκληπιάδαι (physicians)
εἰκασμός (a conjecturing)
λυτέος (one must solve)
ἀντιλογικός (given to contradiction)
πολυπείρων (with many boundaries)
πολυχορδία (the use of many strings)
τεχνικός (artistic)
ἀποδεκτέος (one must receive from others)
νομοθετικός (relating to legislation)
μυθολόγημα (a mythical narrative)
ἐπιχειρητέος (one must attempt or attack)
ἀμάρτυρος (without witness)
ἀποκνητέος ()
παρακέλευμα (an exhortation)
παναρμόνιος (suited to all modes)
ἐπίσχεσις (a checking)
τεχνίον ()
τερατολογία (a telling of marvels)
ἐπανόρθωμα (a correction)
Πυθοχρήστης (sent by the Pythian oracle)
μακρολογία (length of speech)
διασύρω (to tear in pieces)
γυμναστέος (one must practise)
εἰσέρχομαι (to go into)
οἰητέος (one must suppose)

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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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σόφισμα

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a clever device

a sly trick

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σόφισμα

Sense

Declension

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a clever device

a sly trick

Related

Similar forms

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