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τρυφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρυφή

Structure: τρυφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: qru/ptw

Sense

  1. softness, delicacy, daintiness, luxuries, daintinesses
  2. luxuriousness, wantonness
  3. daintiness, insolence, fastidiousness

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

  • τί ὡραιώθησ καὶ τὶ ἡδύνθησ ἀγάπη, ἐν τρυφαῖσ σου̣ (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:7)
  • οὐδ’ ἦν ἱκανά σοι τὰ Μενέλεω μέλαθρα ταῖσ σαῖσ ἐγκαθυβρίζειν τρυφαῖσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 3:5)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἆγισ οὕτω πολὺ παρήλλαττεν εὐφυϊᾴ καὶ φρονήματι ψυχῆσ οὐ μόνον τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ σχεδὸν ἅπαντασ ὅσοι μετ’ Ἀγησίλαον τὸν μέγαν ἐβασίλευσαν, ὥστε μηδέπω γεγονὼσ εἰκοστὸν ἔτοσ, ἐντεθραμμένοσ δὲ πλούτοισ καὶ τρυφαῖσ γυναικῶν, τῆσ τε μητρὸσ Ἀγησιστράτασ καὶ τῆσ μάμμησ Ἀρχιδαμίασ, αἳ πλεῖστα χρήματα Λακεδαιμονίων ἐκέκτηντο, πρόσ τε τὰσ ἡδονὰσ εὐθὺσ ἀπισχυρίσασθαι, καὶ τὸν ἐπιπρέψαι μάλιστα τῇ χάριτι τῆσ μορφῆσ ὡραϊσμὸν δοκοῦντα περισπάσασ τοῦ σώματοσ, καὶ πᾶσαν ἐκδὺσ καὶ διαφυγὼν πολυτέλειαν, ἐγκαλλωπίζεσθαι τῷ τριβωνίῳ, καὶ δεῖπνα καὶ λουτρὰ καὶ διαίτασ Λακωνικὰσ ζητεῖν, καὶ λέγειν ὡσ οὐδὲν δέοιτο τῆσ βασιλείασ, εἰ μὴ δι’ αὐτὴν ἀναλήψοιτο τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὴν πάτριον ἀγωγήν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 4 1:1)
  • ὑποστρέφω συντόνωσ ὁδεύσασ, καὶ καταλαμβάνω τήν τε βουλὴν πᾶσαν συνεληλυθυῖαν καὶ τὸν δημοτικὸν ὄχλον ποιουμένουσ τε πολλὴν κατηγορίαν μου τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ιὠνάθην, ὡσ τοῦ μὲν τὸν πόλεμον ἐπελαφρύνειν αὐτοῖσ ἀμελοῦντοσ, ἐν τρυφαῖσ δὲ διάγοντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, 339:1)
  • ἐξαναλώθησαν δὲ φιλοτιμούμενοι πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ τρυφαῖσ, καὶ ἡ πόλισ δὲ πρὸσ ἁπάσασ τὰσ ἄλλασ ἡμιλλᾶτο περὶ τρυφῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 18 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. softness

  2. luxuriousness

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

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