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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

  • τῶν τε ἐπιτηδείων ἐπεὶ σπάνισ ἦν ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ διὰ τοὺσ ἀφικνουμένουσ, ἀπηγόρευσε μὴ πωλεῖν σῖτον ἀληλεσμένον μηδὲ μέτρον ἔλασσον ἢ μέδιμνον, μηδὲ τῶν ὑγρῶν μηθὲν ἔλαττον ἢ μετρητήν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 88:2)
  • πολὺν δὲ σὺν ἐμοὶ χρυσὸν ἐκπέμπει λάθρᾳ πατήρ, ἵν’, εἴ ποτ’ Ἰλίου τείχη πέσοι, τοῖσ ζῶσιν εἰή παισὶ μὴ σπάνισ βίου. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:2)
  • φλαύραν δ’ οὐ σπάνισ γυναῖκ’ ἔχειν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 1:9)
  • ὡσ τῆσ γε τόλμησ οὐ σπάνισ γενήσεται. (Euripides, episode 7:8)
  • τοῖσι δ’ ἐγὼ πᾶσιν μικρὸν μετὰ τοῦτ’ ἔποσ εἶπον μνῆ μ’ ἀνέπεισε γέροντα καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντ’ ἀναβῆναι καὶ σπάνισ, ἣ πολλοὺσ Θασίων εἰσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 55 3:3)

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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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