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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

  • σάκκουσ ἀχύρων πληρώσαντασ ἐκέλευσεν καθιμᾶν καθ’ ὃ φερόμενον ἀεὶ τὸν κριὸν ὁρῷεν, ὡσ πλάζοιτό τε ἡ ἐμβολή, καὶ δεχόμενοι τὰσ πληγὰσ ἐκκενοῖεν τῇ χαυνότητι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 275:1)
  • τὸ δὲ οἱᾶ δὴ ξύλων τὸ πλέον πεποιημένον ταχὺ τοῦ πυρὸσ ἀντελάβετο καὶ τῇ χαυνότητι πυρωθὲν διὰ βάθουσ φλόγα πολλὴν ἐξεπύρσευσεν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 358:1)
  • ἐκεῖνο πρὸσ θεῶν ἔχεισ εἰπεῖν, ὡσ ἄρα χρείασ μὲν οὐδεμιᾶσ ἕνεκα οὐδὲν ἔδρων, τηνάλλωσ δὲ σοφιστοῦ νόμῳ καὶ χαυνότητι ταῦτα ἐκομψευόμην καὶ σχήματοσ ἕνεκα; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 31:3)

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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