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χειρουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρουργία

Structure: χειρουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xeirourge/w

Sense

  1. a working by hand, practice of a handicraft or art, skill herein
  2. a handicraft, the practice of chirurgery, surgery.

Declension

First 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

  • τῶν ζωγράφων μὲν ἡ καλὴ χειρουργία ἐν τοῖσ πίναξιν κρεμαμένη θαυμάζεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 112)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἄλλοισ διὰ χειρουργιῶν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 123:2)
  • ἐκλεξάμενοι γὰρ τόπον παρὰ τὸν εἴσπλουν τὸν εἰσ τὴν Μοίριδοσ λίμνην ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ κατεσκεύαζον τὸν τάφον ἐκ τῶν καλλίστων λίθων, καὶ τῷ μὲν σχήματι τετράγωνον ὑπεστήσαντο, τῷ δὲ μεγέθει σταδιαίαν ἑκάστην πλευράν, ταῖσ δὲ γλυφαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ χειρουργίαισ ὑπερβολὴν οὐκ ἀπέλιπον τοῖσ ἐπιγινομένοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 66 3:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ χειρουργίᾳ χρῆσθαι τοὺσ ἐλέφαντασ ἱστοροῦσι καὶ γὰρ ξυστὰ καὶ λόγχασ καὶ τοξεύματα, παριστάμενοι τοῖσ τετρωμένοισ, ἄνευ σπαραγμοῦ ῥᾳδίωσ καὶ ἀβλαβῶσ ἐξέλκουσιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 20 9:1)
  • Ἰξίασ δὲ ἔχων ἐν ἀμφοτέροισ τοῖσ σκέλεσι παρέσχεν ἄδετοσ ἐκτεμεῖν τῷ ἰατρῷ, καὶ μὴ στενάξασ μηδὲ τὰσ ὀφρῦσ συναγαγὼν ἐνεκαρτέρησε τῇ χειρουργίᾳ· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)
  • Ἰξίασ δὲ ἔχων ἐν ἀμφοτέροισ τοῖσ σκέλεσι παρέσχεν ἄδετοσ ἐκτεμεῖν τῷ ἰατρῷ, καὶ μὴ στενάξασ μηδὲ τὰσ ὀφρῦσ συναγαγὼν ἐνεκαρτέρησε τῇ χειρουργίᾳ· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)
  • ἀκόλουθον δὲ τῇ μεγαλοπρεπείᾳ ταύτῃ καὶ τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ κόσμον τῶν ἀναθημάτων γενέσθαι, τῇ τε δαπάνῃ θαυμαστὸν καὶ τῇ χειρουργίᾳ περιττῶσ εἰργασμένον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 46 3:1)

Related

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

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