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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

  • μαρτύρομαι δὲ ἦ μὴν καὶ ἱερέασ αὐτοῦ ἀποδειχθήσεσθαι μαστίγων ἢ καυτηρίων ἤ τινοσ τοιαύτησ τερατουργίασ, ἢ καὶ νὴ Δία τελετήν τινα ἐπ’ αὐτῷ συστήσεσθαι νυκτέριον καὶ δᾳδουχίαν ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:88)

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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