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τερατουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τερατουργία

Structure: τερατουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from teratourga/s

Sense

  1. love of the marvellous

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 μήν, ὦ ἑταῖρε, γελάσῃ ἀκούσασ τήν τε ἀλαζονείαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ τερατουργίαν, οἵ γε πρῶτα μὲν ἐπὶ γῆσ βεβηκότεσ καὶ μηδὲν τῶν χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων ἡμῶν ὑπερέχοντεσ, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ὀξύτερον τοῦ πλησίον δεδορκότεσ, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ γήρωσ ἢ ἀργίασ ἀμβλυώττοντεσ, ὅμωσ οὐρανοῦ τε πέρατα διορᾶν ἔφασκον καὶ τὸν ἥλιον περιεμέτρουν καὶ τοῖσ ὑπὲρ τὴν σελήνην ἐπεβάτευον καὶ ὥσπερ ἐκ τῶν ἀστέρων καταπεσόντεσ μεγέθη τε αὐτῶν διεξῄεσαν, καὶ πολλάκισ, εἰ τύχοι, μηδὲ ὁπόσοι στάδιοι Μεγαρόθεν Ἀθήναζὲ εἰσιν ἀκριβῶσ ἐπιστάμενοι τὸ μεταξὺ τῆσ σελήνησ καὶ τοῦ ἡλίου χωρίον ὁπόσων εἰή πηχῶν τὸ μέγεθοσ ἐτόλμων λέγειν, ἀέροσ τε ὕψη καὶ θαλάττησ βάθη καὶ γῆσ περιόδουσ ἀναμετροῦντεσ, ἔτι δὲ κύκλουσ καταγράφοντεσ καὶ τρίγωνα ἐπὶ τετραγώνοισ διασχηματίζοντεσ καὶ σφαίρασ τινὰσ ποικίλασ τὸν οὐρανὸν δῆθεν αὐτὸν ἐπιμετροῦντεσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of the marvellous

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

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