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χλεύη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χλεύη χλεύης

Structure: χλευ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a joke, jest

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

  • μὴ μ’, ὦ μάταιε ναῦτα, τὴν ἄκραν κάμπτων χλεύην τε ποιεῦ καὶ γέλωτα καὶ λάσθην· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 13 1:2)
  • δεξιτερὴν ὀλίγον δὸσ ἐπὶ χρόνον, οὐχ ἵνα παύσῃσ ̔κεἲ μ’ ὁ καλὸσ χλεύην ἔσχἐ χοροιτυπίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 2531)
  • μὴ μ’, ὦ μάταιε ναῦτα, τὴν ἄκραν κάμπτων, χλεύην τε ποιεῦ καὶ γέλωτα καὶ λάσθην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3452)
  • εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ ὅπωσ αὐτοὶ λάβωσι τοῦτο γίγνοιτο, μᾶλλον δὲ ὅπωσ δοκῶσιν εἰληφέναι, παντελῶσ ἤδη τὸ πρᾶγμα εἰρωνείαν καὶ χλεύην νομίζουσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 40:2)
  • πρὸσ τοῦτ’ ἀθυμία τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ κατάπληξισ ἦν θεασαμένων εἰσ χλεύην τοσοῦτον παραναλίσκοντασ ὕδατοσ οὓσ οὐδὲ ποτὸν ἔχειν ὑπελάμβανον, ὥστε καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν ἀπογνόντα τὴν δι’ ἐνδείασ ἅλωσιν τρέπεσθαι πάλιν πρὸσ ὅπλα καὶ βίαν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 233:1)

Synonyms

  1. a joke

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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