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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

  • ἐν δὲ Λιβύῃ ἀφ̓ ἵππων τῶν Λιβυκῶν, οἳ δὴ Νομάδεσ καλοῦνται, οἵ τε ἄνδρεσ αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ ἵπποι, ἀπὸ τούτων τῶν ἵππων μὴ ὅτι ἐλάφουσ αἱροῦσιν ἢ δορκάδασ ‐ ταῦτα μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲ διὰ πολλοῦ ἀγῶνοσ, οὐδὲ ἀγαθοὶ ἵπποι δοκοῦσιν οἱ τοιοῦτόν τι ἑλόντεσ ‐ ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ὄνουσ τοὺσ ἀγρίουσ, οἳ δὴ ὠκύτητι διαφέροντέσ εἰσιν καὶ τῷ ἐπὶ μήκιστον ἀντέχειν θέοντεσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 24 1:1)
  • Οὔτε ἵπποσ ἐπὶ φάτνῃ καὶ φαλάροισ καὶ τάπησιν οὔτε ὄρνισ ἐπὶ βρώμῃ καὶ καλιᾷ ὑψοῦται καὶ γαυριᾷ, ἀλλ’ ἄμφω ἐπὶ ὠκύτητι, ὁ μὲν ποδῶν, ὁ δὲ πτερῶν. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 15:1)
  • προεβλήθησαν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀγγελίαν δύο τῶν δραστηρίων ἀνδρῶν εἰπεῖν τε ἱκανοὶ καὶ πεῖσαι περὶ πραγμάτων, τὸ δὲ τούτων χρησιμώτερον, ὠκύτητι ποδῶν διαφέροντεσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 264:1)
  • τοῦ ναοῦ δέ ἐστιν ἐντὸσ Λάδασ ποδῶν ὠκύτητι ὑπερβαλλόμενοσ τοὺσ ἐφ’ αὑτοῦ καὶ Ἑρμῆσ ἐσ λύρασ ποίησιν χελώνην ᾑρηκώσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 11:1)
  • προελθόντι δὲ αὐτόθεν σταδίουσ εἴκοσι τοῦ Εὐρώτα τὸ ῥεῦμα ἐγγυτάτω τῆσ ὁδοῦ γίνεται, καὶ Λάδα μνῆμά ἐστιν ὠκύτητι ὑπερβαλομένου ποδῶν τοὺσ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 2:1)

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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