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χαυνότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαυνότης χαυνότητος

Structure: χαυνοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xau=nos

Sense

  1. porousness, sponginess
  2. empty vanity

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

  • "ὅθεν οἱ νοῦν ἔχοντεσ αὐτοὶ προϊένται καὶ περικόπτουσιν ὥσπερ ὠκύπτερα τῶν γυναικῶν τὰ περιττὰ χρήματα, τρυφὰσ ἐμποιοῦντα καὶ χαυνότητασ ἀβεβαίουσ καὶ κενάσ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἐπαιρόμεναι πολλάκισ ἀποπέτονται · (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 74)
  • εἰκόσ ἐστι τοῖσ ἀστραπαίοισ καὶ κεραυνίοισ ὕδασι καὶ πνεύμασι καὶ θερμότησιν εἰσ βάθοσ ἐλαυνομέναισ τὴν γῆν στρέφεσθαι καὶ συστροφὰσ ἴσχειν τοιαύτασ καὶ χαυνότητασ, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖσ σώμασι τὰ χοιραδώδη καὶ ἀδενώδη φύματα θερμότητέσ τινεσ καὶ ὑγρότητεσ αἱματώδεισ ἐνδημιουργοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. empty vanity

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

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