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ὡραιότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὡραιότης ὡραιότητος

Structure: ὡραιοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from w(rai=os

Sense

  1. ripeness of fruits
  2. the bloom of youth

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

  • ὁ βασιλεὺσ τῶν δυνάμεων τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, τῇ ὡραιότητι τοῦ οἴκου διελέσθαι σκῦλα. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 67:13)
  • καὶ ἐξῆλθέ σου ὄνομα ἐν τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν ἐν τῷ κάλλει σου, διότι συντετελεσμένον ἦν ἐν εὐπρεπείᾳ ἐν τῇ ὡραιότητι, ᾗ ἔταξα ἐπὶ σέ, λέγει Κύριοσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 16:14)
  • περίζωσαι τὴν ρομφαίαν σου ἐπὶ τὸν μηρόν σου, δυνατέ, τῇ ὡραιότητί σου καὶ τῷ κάλλει σου (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 44:4)

Synonyms

  1. ripeness of fruits

  2. the bloom of youth

Related

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

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