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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

  • ἔπειθ’ ὁπλίτησ ἐντεθεὶσ ἐν καταλόγῳ οὐδεὶσ κατὰ σπουδὰσ μετεγγραφήσεται, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐγγεγράψεται. (Aristotle, Episode 1:6)
  • ὥσπερ Ἑλλήνων οἱ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ δυνατώτατοι περὶ σπουδὰσ ὀρχηστῶν εἶτα κιθαρῳδῶν διαστάντεσ, ἐκ τούτου τὰσ ἐν Αἰδηψῷ κολυμβήθρασ καὶ παστάδασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ἀντιπαραβάλλοντεσ ἀεὶ καὶ τοπομαχοῦντεσ καὶ ἀποκόπτοντεσ ὀχετοὺσ καὶ ἀποστρέφοντεσ, οὕτωσ ἐξηγριώθησαν καὶ διεφθάρησαν, ὥστε πάντων ἀφαιρεθέντεσ ὑπὸ τοῦ τυράννου καὶ φυγάδεσ καὶ πένητεσ καὶ ὀλίγου δέω λέγειν ἕτεροι τῶν πρότερον γενόμ ενοι μόνῳ διέμειναν οἱ αὐτοὶ τῷ μισεῖν ἀλλήλουσ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 17 1:1)
  • ὥσπερ Ἑλλήνων οἱ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ δυνατώτατοι περὶ σπουδὰσ ὀρχηστῶν εἶτα κιθαρῳδῶν διαναστάντεσ, ἐκ τούτου τὰσ ἐν Αἰδηψῷ κολυμβήθρασ καὶ παστάδασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ἀντιπαραβάλλοντεσ ἀεὶ καὶ τοπομαχοῦντεσ καὶ ἀποκόπτοντεσ; (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 17 2:1)
  • ἐκ γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἐθῶν οὔτ’ ἂν φρόνιμοσ οὐδείσ ποτε γενέσθαι τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνθρώπων ἐκ νέου ἐπιτηδεύων δύναιτο ‐ οὐχ οὕτωσ θαυμαστῇ φύσει κραθήσεται ‐ σώφρων δὲ οὐδ’ ἂν μελλήσαι ποτὲ γενέσθαι, καὶ δὴ καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ ἀρετῆσ ὁ αὐτὸσ λόγοσ ἂν εἰή, πόλισ τε οὐδεμία ἂν ἠρεμήσαι κατὰ νόμουσ οὐδ’ οὑστινασοῦν ἀνδρῶν οἰομένων ἀναλίσκειν μὲν δεῖν πάντα εἰσ ὑπερβολάσ, ἀργῶν δὲ εἰσ ἅπαντα ἡγουμένων αὖ δεῖν γίγνεσθαι πλὴν ἐσ εὐωχίασ καὶ πότουσ καὶ ἀφροδισίων σπουδὰσ διαπονουμένασ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 21:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὰσ τούτων σπουδὰσ ὁ δῆμοσ ἀντιτάξασ ἑαυτὸν ἤμυνε τῷ Κλωδίῳ, καὶ μέγα πρὸσ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ ὄφελοσ ἦν ἐκπεπληγμένουσ καὶ δεδοικότασ τὸ πλῆθοσ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 10 5:2)

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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