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χρησμοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμοσύνη

Structure: χρησμοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: xra/omai

Sense

  1. need, want, poverty
  2. importunity

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

  • εὖτε γὰρ οὖν ὡσ πλεῖστα κάμοι καὶ πλεῖστα μογήσαι, δὴ τότε μιν περιπολλὸν ἐπασσυτέρη βιότοιο χρησμοσύνη τρύχεσκεν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 8:3)
  • ἐχθρὸσ μὲν γὰρ τοῖσι μετέσσεται, οὕσ κεν ἵκηται χρησμοσύνῃ τ’ εἴκων καὶ στυγερῇ πενίῃ, αἰσχύνει τε γένοσ, κατὰ δ’ ἀγλαὸν εἶδοσ ἐλέγχει, πᾶσα δ’ ἀτιμίη καὶ κακότησ ἕπεται. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 130)

Synonyms

  1. need

  2. importunity

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

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