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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

  • "ταῦτα μὲν Θεαγένησ Σιβύλλησ ἀκηκοέναι φησίν, ἐγὼ δὲ Βάκιδοσ αὐτῷ χρησμὸν ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐρῶ· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:92)
  • τοιγάρτοι μετὰ τὸν χρησμὸν καὶ ἔσπειρεν καὶ ὁ φὺσ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτόν. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 13:5)
  • περὶ δὲ Ἐπικούρου καὶ τοιοῦτόν τινα χρησμὸν ἀπεφθέγξατο· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:2)
  • ὁπότε δὲ καὶ ἐτόλμησεν ἀδελφῷ συγκλητικοῦ χρησμῳδῆσαι, καταγελάστωσ ἀπήλλαξεν, οὐχ εὑρὼν οὔτε αὐτὸσ πλάσασθαι χρησμὸν δεξιὸν οὔτε τὸν ποιῆσαι πρὸσ καιρὸν αὐτῷ δυνησόμενον. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:12)
  • εἶτ’ ἐπειδὴ πεισθεὶσ ὁ ἠλίθιοσ ἐκεῖνοσ Κελτὸσ εἰσέβαλε καὶ ἀπήλλαξεν αὐτῇ στρατιᾷ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὀσρόου κατακοπείσ, τοῦτον μὲν τὸν χρησμὸν ἐξαιρεῖ ἐκ τῶν ὑπομνημάτων, ἐντίθησιν δ’ ἄλλον ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 27:4)

Synonyms

  1. the answer of an oracle

Related

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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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