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σπουδή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπουδή

Structure: σπουδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: speu/dw

Sense

  1. haste, speed, speed
  2. zeal, pains, exertion, trouble, pains, much ado about, with great attention to, zealous exertions, party feelings, rivalries
  3. zeal, earnestness, seriousness
  4. an object of attention, a serious engagement
  5. in haste, hastily
  6. with great exertion, with difficulty, hardly, scarcely
  7. earnestly, seriously, urgently, busily, in earnest, seriously

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἀκοαὶ καὶ σπουδαὶ ταράξουσιν αὐτὸν ἐξ ἀνατολῶν καὶ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ, καὶ ἥξει ἐν θυμῷ πολλῷ τοῦ ἀφανίσαι καὶ τοῦ ἀναθεματίσαι πολλοὺς (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 11:44)
  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν ἔχοισ ἂν κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν ὅπωσ ἐστὶ καταγέλαστα, ὦ Χάρων, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἄγαν σπουδαὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν ἐλπίδων οἴχεσθαι ἀναρπάστουσ γινομένουσ ὑπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου Θανάτου. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 17:1)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν πρὸσ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπλήστωσ διακειμένοισ ἀχθόμεθα, τοὺσ δὲ τιμὴν μείζω τῆσ ὑπαρχούσησ ἀπὶ κτωμένουσ ἐπαινοῦμεν, καὶ ὅτι τῶν μὲν ἄλλων, ἐφ’ οἷσ εἰσιν ἀνθρώπιναι σπουδαί, πλούτου καὶ ἀρχῆσ καὶ δυναστείασ, πολλάκισ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ συμβαίνει γίγνεσθαι κυρίουσ, τῆσ δὲ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τῆσ παρὰ τοῖσ πλήθεσιν εὐνοίασ τοὺσ οἰκείουσ ἑκάστου κληρονομεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 6 2:1)
  • σπουδαὶ δὲ λόγων κατατεινομένων ἦσαν ἴσαι πωσ, πρὶν ὁ ποικιλόφρων κόπισ ἡδυλόγοσ δημοχαριστὴσ Λαερτιάδησ πείθει στρατιὰν μὴ τὸν ἄριστον Δαναῶν πάντων δούλων σφαγίων εἵνεκ’ ἀπωθεῖν, μηδέ τιν’ εἰπεῖν παρὰ Φερσεφόνῃ στάντα φθιμένων ὡσ ἀχάριστοι Δαναοὶ Δαναοῖσ τοῖσ οἰχομένοισ ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων Τροίασ πεδίων ἀπέβησαν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 2:1)
  • εἰ δ’ ἀτελὴσ θάνατοσ σπουδαί τε δεσποί‐ νασ, ὅ τε καιρὸσ ἄπεισι τόλμασ, ᾇ νῦν ἐλπὶσ ἐφαίνετ’, ἢ θη‐ κτὸν ξίφοσ ἢ δαίμων ἐξά‐ ψει βρόχον ἀμφὶ δειρήν, πάθεσι πάθεα δ’ ἐξανύτουσ’ εἰσ ἄλλασ βιότου κάτει‐ σι μορφάσ. (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. haste

  2. zeal

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

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