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σόφισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σόφισμα σόφισματος

Structure: σοφισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from sofi/zw

Sense

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

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

  • οὕτω τοι θηρῶσιν ὅσοισ κύνεσ τε ἀγαθαὶ καὶ ἵπποι, οὐ πάγαισ οὐδὲ ἄρκυσιν οὐδὲ βρόχοισ οὐδὲ ἁπλῶσ δόλοισ καὶ σοφίσμασιν ἐξαπατῶντεσ τὰ θηρία, ἀλλ̓ ἐκ τοῦ εὐθέοσ διαγωνιζόμενοι. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 24 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a clever device

  2. a sly trick

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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