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συνουσία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συνουσία

Structure: συνουσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sunw/n, sunou=sa

Sense

  1. a being with, social intercourse, society, conversation, communion, communion with, by long intercourse with, intercourse with
  2. intercourse with a teacher, attendance on his lectures
  3. cohabitation
  4. a society, company, party

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

  • τοὺσ μέντοι τοῦ ἄλλου πλήθουσ, οἱο͂ν γυμναστάσ τινασ ἢ κόλακασ, ἰδιώτασ καὶ μικροὺσ τὰσ γνώμασ καὶ ταπεινοὺσ αὐτόθεν ἀνθρώπουσ, οὔτε ἀποτρέπειν ἄξιον τῶν τοιούτων συνουσιῶν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν πεισθεῖεν, οὔτε μὴν αἰτιᾶσθαι καλῶσ ἔχει μὴ ἀπολειπομένουσ τῶν μισθοδοτῶν εἰ καὶ πάνυ πολλὰ ὑβρίζοιντο ὑπ’ αὐτῶν, ἐπιτήδειοι γὰρ καὶ οὐκ ἀνάξιοι τῆσ τοιαύτησ διατριβῆσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:4)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ εἰ μὲν ἑώρων αὐτοὺσ φυγήν τινα ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τῆσ πενίασ εὑρισκομένουσ ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων συνουσιῶν, οὐκ ἂν ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἄγαν ἐλευθερίασ ἐμικρολογούμην πρὸσ αὐτούσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 5:5)
  • Θεόφραστοσ δ’ οὕτω φησί τινασ ὀχευτικὰσ δυνάμεισ εἶναι ὡσ καὶ μέχρι ἑβδομήκοντα συνουσιῶν ἐπιτελεῖν καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον αὐτοῖσ αἷμα ἀποκρίνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 32 2:3)
  • εἰ γάρ τι μέμνημαι, σχεδὸν εἴκοσιν ἔτη ταῦτά ἐστιν, ἀφ̓ οὗ σε οὐδὲν ἄλλο ποιοῦντα ἑώρακα, ἢ παρὰ τοὺσ διδασκάλουσ φοιτῶντα καὶ ὡσ τὸ πολὺ ἐσ βιβλίον ἐπικεκυφότα καὶ ὑπομνήματα τῶν συνουσιῶν ἀπογραφόμενον, ὠχρὸν ἀεὶ ὑπὸ φροντίδων καὶ τὸ σῶμα κατεσκληκότα. (Lucian, 5:2)
  • ἔπειτα κατὰ τὸ μηδὲν αὐτῇ μυθῶδεσ προσάψαι, μηδ’ εἰσ ἀπάτην καὶ γοητείαν τῶν πολλῶν ἐκτρέψαι τὴν γραφήν, ὡσ οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ πάντεσ ἐποίησαν, Λαμίασ τινὰσ ἱστοροῦντεσ ἐν ὕλαισ καὶ νάπαισ ἐκ γῆσ ἀνἱεμένασ, καὶ Ναΐδασ ἀμφιβίουσ ἐκ Ταρτάρων ἐξιούσασ καὶ διὰ πελάγουσ νηχομένασ καὶ μιξόθηρασ, καὶ ταύτασ εἰσ ὁμιλίαν ἀνθρώποισ συνερχομένασ, καὶ ἐκ θνητῶν καὶ θείων συνουσιῶν γονὰσ ἡμιθέουσ, καὶ ἄλλασ τινὰσ ἀπίστουσ τῷ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ βίῳ καὶ πολὺ τὸ ἀνόητον ἔχειν δοκούσασ ἱστορίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 6 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a being with

  2. cohabitation

  3. a society

Related

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

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