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συνήθεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συνήθεια

Structure: συνηθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sunh/qhs

Sense

  1. habitual intercourse, acquaintance, society, intimacy
  2. habit, custom, habituation, habituation
  3. the customary use

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

  • αἱ γὰρ ἰδίᾳ καὶ χωρὶσ ὁμιλίαι καὶ συνήθειαι πρὸσ ἄλλουσ ἀποστρέφουσι καὶ ἀπάγουσιν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων τῷ γάρ φιλεῖν ἑτέρουσ εὐθὺσ ἕπεται τὸ χαίρειν ἑτέροισ καὶ ζηλοῦν ἑτέρουσ καὶ ἄγεσθαι ὑφ’ ἑτέρων. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 202)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἰδίᾳ καὶ χωρὶσ ὁμιλίαι καὶ συνήθειαι πρὸσ ἄλλουσ ἀποστρέφουσι καὶ ἀπάγουσιν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων· (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 20 1:2)
  • φυλαί τε γὰρ ἕτεραι ποιητέαι πλείουσ καὶ φατρίαι, καὶ τὰ τῶν ἰδίων ἱερῶν συνακτέον εἰσ ὀλίγα καὶ κοινά, καὶ πάντα σοφιστέον ὅπωσ ἂν ὅτι μάλιστα ἀναμειχθῶσι πάντεσ ἀλλήλοισ, αἱ δὲ συνήθειαι διαζευχθῶσιν αἱ πρότερον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 69:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ δέ, οἷσ ἱερὰ καὶ τάφοι προγόνων ὑπάρχουσιν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, καὶ διατριβαὶ καὶ συνήθειαι μεθ’ ὑμῶν ἐλευθέριοι, καὶ γάμοι κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ κηδεσταὶ καὶ τέκνα, Ἀθήνησι μὲν ἦμεν ἄξιοι τῆσ ὑμετέρασ πίστεωσ, οὐ γὰρ ἄν ποτε ἡμᾶσ εἵλεσθε, ἐλθόντεσ δ’ εἰσ Μακεδονίαν ἐξαίφνησ ἐγενόμεθα προδόται. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 231)

Synonyms

  1. habit

Related

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

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