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σπάνις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπάνις σπάνιος

Structure: σπανι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. scarcity, rareness, dearth, lack of, there is, lack, difficulty

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

  • κᾆτ’, ἐπεὶ κατέσχεσ ἀρχάσ, μεταβαλὼν ἄλλουσ τρόπουσ τοῖσ φίλοισιν οὐκέτ’ ἦσθα τοῖσ πρὶν ὡσ πρόσθεν φίλοσ, δυσπρόσιτοσ ἔσω τε κλῄθρων σπάνιοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees28)
  • ὁ δὲ σπάνιοσ καὶ οὐδ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἐπιτυχούσησ ἀγωγῆσ γιγνόμενοσ τεχνίτησ οὐ μέμψεται τὸ ἀγεννὲσ καὶ χαμαιτυπὲσ καὶ ἀκατάσκευον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 27 1:3)
  • ὅτι σπάνιοσ οὗτοσ ὁ ὄρνισ δηλοῖ Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Στρατιώτῃ ἢ Τύχωνι λέγων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 55 1:7)
  • "σπάνιοσ γὰρ ὄντωσ ἦν τὸ παλαιὸν παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ὁ μὲν χρυσὸσ καὶ πάνυ, ὁ δὲ ἄργυροσ ὀλίγοσ ἦν ἐν τοῖσ μετάλλοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 192)
  • τοιγαροῦν ἀπὸ τῆσ πρώτησ εὐθὺσ αἰσθήσεωσ αὐτοὺσ ἐκμανθάνοντεσ ἔχομεν ἐν ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ ὥσπερ ἐγκεχαραγμένουσ, καὶ σπάνιοσ μὲν ὁ παραβαίνων, ἀδύνατοσ δ’ ἡ τῆσ κολάσεωσ παραίτησισ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 131:2)

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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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