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χρησμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμός χρησμοῦ

Structure: χρησμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xra/w3

Sense

  1. the answer of an oracle, oracular response, oracle

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χρησμός χρησμώ χρησμοί
Genitive χρησμοῦ χρησμοῖν χρησμῶν
Dative χρησμῷ χρησμοῖν χρησμοῖς
Accusative χρησμόν χρησμώ χρησμούς
Vocative χρησμέ χρησμώ χρησμοί

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

  • ἐκαλοῦντο δὲ οἱ χρησμοὶ οὗτοι αὐτόφωνοι, καὶ οὐ πᾶσιν ἐδίδοντο οὐδὲ ἀνέδην, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ εὐπαρύφοισ καὶ πλουσίοισ καὶ μεγαλοδώροισ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 26:4)
  • "τὰ δ’ ἄλλα χρηστήρια, τὸ ἐν Διδύμοισ καὶ τὸ ἐν Κλάρῳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖσ, ἔχουσι τὸν πατέρα τὸν Ἀπόλλω χρησμῳδοῦντα, ἢ ψευδεῖσ εἰσιν οἱ νῦν ἐκπίπτοντεσ ἐκεῖ χρησμοί; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 43:13)
  • διὰ τοῦτο καὶ πολὺσ ὁ ἐν μέσῳ χρόνοσ ἦν τῆσ τε δόσεωσ τῶν βιβλίων καὶ τῆσ χρησμῳδίασ, ὡσ ἐν τοσούτῳ κατὰ σχολὴν λύοιντὸ τε οἱ χρησμοὶ ἀσφαλῶσ καὶ εὑρίσκοιντο οἱ ἑρμηνεῦσαι δυνάμενοι ἕκαστα. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 52:2)
  • Λοξίου γὰρ ἔμπεδοι χρησμοί, βροτῶν δὲ μαντικὴν χαίρειν ἐῶ. (Euripides, episode 6:6)
  • τίσ δ’ ἔμ’ Ἀπόλλων, ποῖοι χρησμοὶ φονίαν ἔδοσαν μητρὶ γενέσθαι; (Euripides, episode, anapests8)

Synonyms

  1. the answer of an oracle

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

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