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συγγραφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγγραφή

Structure: συγγραφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: suggra/fw

Sense

  1. a writing or noting down
  2. that which is written, a writing, book: a history, narrative
  3. a written contract, a covenant, bond, a bond to secure money

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 ἤρξατο ὁ λαὸσ Ἰσραὴλ γράφειν ἐν ταῖσ συγγραφαῖσ καὶ συναλλάγμασιν ἔτουσ πρώτου ἐπὶ Σίμωνοσ ἀρχιερέωσ μεγάλου καὶ στρατηγοῦ καὶ ἡγουμένου Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 13:42)
  • δέον δ’ αὐτὸν καταγοράσαι φορτία Ἀθήνηθεν μνῶν ἑκατὸν δέκα πέντε, εἰ ἔμελλεν τοῖσ δανεισταῖσ πᾶσι ποιήσειν τὰ ἐν ταῖσ συγγραφαῖσ γεγραμμένα, οὐ κατηγόρασεν ἀλλ’ ἢ πεντακισχιλίων καὶ πεντακοσίων δραχμῶν, σὺν τῷ ἐπισιτισμῷ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 10:1)
  • ἡμέραισ δὲ οὐ πολλαῖσ ὕστερον προσελθών μοι κλάων ἔλεγεν, ὅτι οἱ ξένοι ἀπαιτοῖεν αὑτόν, οἱ δανείσαντεσ τὰ λύτρα, τὸ λοιπὸν ἀργύριον, καὶ ἐν ταῖσ συγγραφαῖσ εἰή τριάκονθ’ ἡμερῶν αὐτὸν ἀποδοῦναι ἢ διπλάσιον ὀφείλειν, καὶ ὅτι τὸ χωρίον τὸ ἐν γειτόνων μοι τοῦτο οὐδεὶσ ἐθέλοι οὔτε πρίασθαι οὔτε θέσθαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 12:1)
  • ἅσ2τινασ αἰτίασ εἰσ Ῥώμην ἀφίκετο καὶ δι’ οἱών ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν παρῆλθεν, ὡσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐπιχωρίοισ συγγραφαῖσ εὑρ͂ον ἐρῶ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 46 3:1)
  • οὐδ’ αὖ τοὺσ κυβερνήτασ λέγω τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ ἀεὶ καὶ πάντασ ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου σώζοντασ, ἀλλ’ ἤδη τινὰ καὶ σκηπτοῦ καὶ χειμῶνοσ ἡττηθέντα καὶ χρησάμενον τύχῃ τῆσ τέχνησ κρείττονι, πάντωσ δ’ ἅπαντασ παραχωροῦντασ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι, κἀν ταῖσ συγγραφαῖσ οὕτω γραφόμενον, σωθείσησ τῆσ νεὼσ τὸ καὶ τὸ ποιήσειν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 140:4)

Synonyms

  1. that which is written

  2. a written contract

Similar forms

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

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