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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

  • "καλοῦσιν, ὁ δὲ τῆσ χρησμοσύνησ ἐλάττων, τὸ κατὰ λόγον τηροῦντεσ ἐνταῦθα τὸν μὲν ἄλλον ἐνιαυτὸν παιᾶνι χρῶνται περὶ τὰσ θυσίασ, ἀρχομένου δὲ χειμῶνοσ ἐπεγείραντεσ διθύραμβον τὸν δὲ παιᾶνα καταπαύσαντεσ, τρεῖσ μῆνασ ἀντ’ ἐκείνου τοῦτον κατακαλοῦνται τὸν θεὸν · (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 912)
  • αὐτὰρ ὁ τήνγε παραβλήδην προσέειπεν "Ὑψιπύλη, μάλα κεν θυμηδέοσ ἀντιάσαιμεν χρησμοσύνησ, ἣν ἄμμι σέθεν χατέουσιν ὀπάζεισ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 15:2)
  • Σπαρτιῆται δὲ πρῶτα μὲν ἀκούσαντεσ δεινὰ ἐποιεῦντο καὶ μετίεσαν τῆσ χρησμοσύνησ τὸ παράπαν, τέλοσ δὲ δείματοσ μεγάλου ἐπικρεμαμένου τοῦ Περσικοῦ τούτου στρατεύματοσ καταίνεον μετιόντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 33 6:1)

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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