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σωφρονισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωφρονισμός

Structure: σωφρονισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. teaching of morality or moderation

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σωφρονισμός σωφρονισμώ σωφρονισμοί
Genitive σωφρονισμοῦ σωφρονισμοῖν σωφρονισμῶν
Dative σωφρονισμῷ σωφρονισμοῖν σωφρονισμοῖς
Accusative σωφρονισμόν σωφρονισμώ σωφρονισμούς
Vocative σωφρονισμέ σωφρονισμώ σωφρονισμοί

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν ὁ θεὸσ πνεῦμα δειλίασ, ἀλλὰ δυνάμεωσ καὶ ἀγάπησ καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ. (PROS TIMOQEON B, chapter 1 9:1)
  • διὰ τοῦτο καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ αἱ τῶν Ἑλλήνων πόλεισ πρώτιστα διὰ τῆσ ποιητικῆσ παιδεύουσιν, οὐ ψυχαγωγίασ χάριν δήπουθεν ψιλῆσ, ἀλλὰ σωφρονισμοῦ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 6:4)

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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