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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

  • Ἀσήρ, πίων αὐτοῦ ὁ ἄρτοσ, καὶ αὐτὸσ δώσει τρυφὴν ἄρχουσι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:20)
  • δὸσ καὶ λάβε καὶ ἀπάτησον τὴν ψυχήν σου, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ᾅδου ζητῆσαι τρυφήν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 14:16)
  • μεγαλοψυχίασ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ καλῶσ ἐνεγκεῖν καὶ εὐτυχίαν καὶ ἀτυχίαν καὶ τιμὴν καὶ ἀτιμίαν, καὶ τὸ θαυμάζειν μήτε τρυφὴν μήτε θεραπείαν μήτε ἐξουσίαν μήτε τὰσ νίκασ τὰσ ἐναγωνίουσ, ἔχειν δέ τι βάθοσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ μέγεθοσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 25:1)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐξωστράκισται μὲν πᾶν τὸ χρήσιμον ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων, ἐξῄρηται δὲ τὰ νεῦρα τῶν πόλεων, εἰσ ἄνεσιν δὲ καὶ τρυφὴν νενεύκασιν οἱ βίοι, τὰ δὲ τῆσ ὁμονοίασ οὐκέτι μένει, νόθαι δὲ γεγόνασιν αἱ τῶν φίλων ἐλπίδεσ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 53:2)
  • πλὴν τοῦτό γε μόνον ὤνησο τῆσ σκευῆσ, ὅτι μηδὲ ἐλεούμενοσ ἐπὶ τῇ ἥττῃ ἀπέρχῃ, ἀλλὰ μισούμενοσ προσέτι διὰ τὴν ἄτεχνόν σου ταύτην τρυφήν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 10:2)

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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