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τέρψις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέρψις τέρψεως

Structure: τερψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: te/rpw

Sense

  1. full enjoyment, delight, gladness, pleasure

Declension

Third 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 φοβηθήσονται οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ τὰ πέρατα ἀπὸ τῶν σημείων σου. ἐξόδουσ πρωί̈ασ καὶ ἑσπέρασ τέρψεισ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 64:9)
  • ὦ λυγραὶ φιλημάτων τέρψεισ, λυγραὶ δὲ τῶνδ’ ὅπλων κοινωνίαι. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:19)
  • καί μοι δοκεῖ τισ οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτεῖν τὴν μὲν Πλάτωνοσ λέξιν εἰκάσασ ἀνθηρῷ χωρίῳ καταγωγὰσ ἡδείασ ἔχοντι καὶ τέρψεισ ἐφημέρουσ, τὴν δὲ Δημοσθένουσ διάλεκτον εὐκάρπῳ καὶ παμφόρῳ γῇ καὶ οὔτε τῶν ἀναγκαίων εἰσ βίον οὔτε τῶν περιττῶν εἰσ τέρψιν σπανιζούσῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 323)
  • οὐ δυσσέβεια, τοὐμὸν εἰ τέρψεισ κέαρ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 8:13)
  • οὐκέτι δὴ πτερύγεσσι λιγυφθόγγοισιν ἀείσεισ, ἀκρί, κατ’ εὐκάρπουσ αὔλακασ ἑζομένα, οὐδέ με κεκλιμένον σκιερὰν ὑπὸ φυλλάδα τέρψεισ, ξουθᾶν ἐκ πτερύγων ἁδὺ κρέκουσα μέλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1921)

Synonyms

  1. full enjoyment

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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