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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

  • δίκην σε δοῦναι δεῖ σοφισμάτων κακῶν. (Euripides, episode 3:17)
  • ὁρῶ δ’ ὄχλον στείχοντα καί τινασ δύο ὠχροὺσ κεκράκτασ, πυγμάχουσ σοφισμάτων, Δᾶμίν τε καὶ ‐ παῦε, ὦ Ἑρμαγόρα βέλτιστε, τραγῳδῶν οἶδα γὰρ οὕστινασ λέγεισ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 33:7)
  • ὑπῆλθε δαίμων, ὥστε τῶν σοφισμάτων πολλῷ γενέσθαι τῶν ἐμῶν σοφώτεροσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:6)
  • ὡσ ἐγὼ θεώμενοσ, ὅταν τι τούτων τῶν σοφισμάτων ἴδω, πλεῖν ἢ ’νιαυτῷ πρεσβύτεροσ ἀπέρχομαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 1:15)
  • ὅπωσ ἂν εὔξωμαι πρὸ τῶν σοφισμάτων ἀγῶνα κρῖναι τόνδε μουσικώτατα· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:10)

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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