Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπουργία

Structure: ὑπουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from u(pourgo/s

Sense

  1. service rendered

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

  • "πάντων δὲ οὕτωσ ὑπερηφάνωσ προέστησαν ὥστε οὐδένων ἄδακρυσ ἡ τῆσ δουλείασ ὑπουργία γιγνομένη διήγγειλεν εἰσ τοὺσ ἐπιγινομένουσ τὴν ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥῆσιν οἱά τισ ἦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:57)
  • ἔστω δὴ χάρισ, καθ’ ἣν ὁ ἔχων λέγεται χάριν ἔχειν, ὑπουργία τῷ δεομένῳ μὴ ἀντί τινοσ, μηδ’ ἵνα τι αὐτῷ τῷ ὑπουργοῦντι ἀλλ’ ἵνα τι ἐκείνῳ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 7 2:1)
  • "τὸ δὲ τῶν ἐναλίων γένοσ ἔκφυλον ὅλωσ καὶ ἄποικον ἡμῶν, ὥσπερ ἐν ἄλλῳ τινὶ κόσμῳ γεγονότων καὶ ζώντων, οὔτ’ ὄψισ οὔτε φωνή τισ οὔθ’ ὑπουργία παραιτεῖται τῆσ προσφορᾶσ, οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν τισ ἔχοι χρήσασθαι ζῶσιν, ἃ μηδ’ ὅλωσ ζῇ παρ’ ἡμῖν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 13:6)
  • ἦν δ’ ἔνθεν ἡ πλείστη τῷ βασιλεῖ πρὸσ τὰσ ναυτικὰσ δυνάμεισ ὑπουργία. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 28:6)

Synonyms

  1. service rendered

Related

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

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