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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

  • Σεπφωρῖται δὲ παρ’ ἐλπίδα τὴν ἑαυτῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐμοῦ σοφίσματοσ ἐσώθησαν. (Flavius Josephus, 447:4)
  • ἔπειτα μὴ πιστεύειν τοῖσ σοφίσματοσ χάριν πρὸσ τὸ πλῆθοσ συγκειμένοισ, ἐξελέγχεται γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν ἔργων ποῖα δὲ λέγομεν τῶν πολιτειῶν σοφίσματα, πρότερον εἴρηται. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 151:1)
  • ὁ δὲ ἐκείνῳ μὲν ἀποκρίνεται, ὅτι καὶ ἄλλοι κατήκουον τῶν λόγων, αἰσχρὸν εἶναι κλέψαι τὴν νίκην, ἀλλὰ φανερῶσ καὶ ἄνευ σοφίσματοσ χρῆναι νικῆσαἰ λέξανδρον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 10 2:1)
  • πρῶτον δὲ Εὐμενῆ ἄρξαι τοῦ σοφίσματοσ, ὅντινα ὀλίγῳ πρόσθεν ἔφαμεν ὅτι διηνέχθη πρὸσ Ἡφαιστίωνα· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 14 9:3)
  • τὸν δὲ Πανδάρεων Μιλήσιόν τε ἐκ Μιλήτου τῆσ Κρητικῆσ ὄντα ἴστω τισ καὶ ἀδικήματοσ ἐσ τὴν κλοπὴν Ταντάλῳ καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῷ ὁρ́κῳ μετασχόντα σοφίσματοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 4:3)

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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