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ὠκύτης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύτης ὠκύτητος

Structure: ὠκυτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. quickness, swiftness, fleetness, speed

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

  • τὰ μὲν οὖν τῆσ γυμνῆσ ἀγωνίασ αὐτίκα ἐδόκει αὐτῷ ἀδύνατον εἶναι μήτε πρὸσ ἰσχὺν μήτε πρὸσ ὠκύτητα εὖ πεφυκότι, κιθάρᾳ δὲ καὶ ᾠδῇ ῥᾳδίωσ κρατήσειν ἐπείσθη ὑπὸ καταράτων ἀνθρώπων οὓσ εἶχε περὶ αὑτὸν ἐπαινούντων καὶ βοώντων ὁπότε καὶ τὸ σμικρότατον ἐκεῖνοσ ἀνακρούσαιτο. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ οὐδὲ ἄλλο γένοσ κυνῶν ἐγίγνωσκεν, ὃ κατὰ ὠκύτητα ἐοίκεν τῷ Κελτικῷ, τεκμαίρεσθαι ὑπάρχει ἀπὸ τῶνδε. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 2 2:1)
  • μεταθεῖν δὲ καὶ ἀνευρίσκειν τὸν ὑποκινήσαντα οὔτε τῶν Καρικῶν φαυλότεραί εἰσιν οὔτε τῶν Κρητικῶν, ὅτι μὴ κατὰ τὴν ὠκύτητα. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 3 4:1)
  • τεκοῦσαν δὲ εἰ μὲν ἐθέλοισ ἐπαναλαβεῖν τὴν πρόσθεν ὠκύτητα, μὴ ἐᾶν ἐκτρέφειν αὐτὴν ὅτι μὴ ἐσ ὅσον ἀποκουφίσαι τὸ πολὺ τοῦ γάλακτοσ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 30 1:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τοὺσ Ἰνδοὺσ γὰρ ἀπηγέεσθαι, τίγριν εἶναι μέγαθοσ μὲν ἡλίκον τὸν μέγιστον ἵππον, τὴν δὲ ὠκύτητα καὶ ἀλκὴν οἱήν οὐδενὶ ἄλλῳ εἰκάσαι· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 15 2:3)
  • ἓν γὰρ οὐδὲν οὕτω τεκμήριον ἐσ ὠκύτητά τε καὶ γενναιότητα εὑρ́οισ ἂν ἐπιλεγόμενοσ ταὐτὸν ἐπὶ πάσῃ ἰδέᾳ κυνόσ, ὡσ τὸ μῆκοσ, καὶ τοὐναντίον τὴν βραχύτητα ἐσ τὸ βραδὺ καὶ ἀγεννέσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. quickness

Related

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

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