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ὑγεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑγεία

Structure: ὑγει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: late form for u(gi/eia, Plut.

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑγεία ὑγείᾱ ὑγεῖαι
Genitive ὑγείᾱς ὑγείαιν ὑγειῶν
Dative ὑγείᾱͅ ὑγείαιν ὑγείαις
Accusative ὑγείᾱν ὑγείᾱ ὑγείᾱς
Vocative ὑγείᾱ ὑγείᾱ ὑγεῖαι

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

  • εὐθυμήσομεν δὲ τούτοισ μᾶλλον παροῦσιν, ἂν μὴ παρόντων αὐτῶν φαντασίαν λαμβάνωμεν ἀναμιμνήσκοντεσ αὑτοὺσ πολλάκισ, ὡσ ποθεινόν ἐστιν ὑγεία νοσοῦσι καὶ πολεμουμένοισ εἰρήνη, καὶ κτήσασθαι δόξαν ἐν πόλει τηλικαύτῃ καὶ φίλουσ ἀγνῶτι καὶ ξένῳ· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 9 3:1)
  • τὰ δ̓ ἐναντία τούτοισ, εἰρήνη καὶ ὁμόνοια καὶ ὑγεία, καὶ ταῦτα οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἀντείποι μὴ οὐχὶ ἀγαθὰ καὶ εἶναι καὶ λέγεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:2)
  • ἀδιάφορα δὲ πλοῦτοσ, ὑγεία, δόξα. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 15:5)
  • ὑγεία ἀγαθόν, νόσοσ δὲ κακόν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:2)
  • τὰ δὲ ἀγάλματα Ἀσκληπιὸσ μὲν καὶ Ὑγεία λευκοῦ λίθου, τὸ δὲ τοῦ Διὸσ χαλκοῦν ἐστιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 9:8)
  • ‐ Πάλιν τῆσ αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου τέχνησ ἐστίν, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν σὴν τῶν ἐκτόσ ἐστιν, ὅμοιον ἀγρῷ, ὅμοιον ὑγείᾳ, ὅμοιον εὐδοξίᾳ. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 3:2)

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

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