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Meaning of "eutrapelia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EUTRAPELIA

eutrapelia  [ˌjuːtrəˈpiːlɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EUTRAPELIA

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eutrapelia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EUTRAPELIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Eutrapelia

Eutrapelia comes from the Greek for 'wittiness', referring to pleasantness in conversation. It is one of Aristotle's virtues, the "golden mean" between boorishness and buffoonery. Later on it came to mostly signify jokes that were obscene and coarse. The word appears only once in the New Testament, in Ephesians 5:4, where it is translated "coarse jesting" in the NIV.

Definition of eutrapelia in the English dictionary

The definition of eutrapelia in the dictionary is the quality of being skilled in conversation; wit; urbanity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EUTRAPELIA


abelia
əˈbiːlɪə
amelia
əˈmiːlɪə
anthelia
æntˈhiːlɪə
aurelia
ɔːˈriːlɪə
automobilia
ˌɔːtəməˈbiːlɪə
bromelia
brəˈmiːlɪə
camellia
kəˈmiːlɪə
Delia
ˈdiːlɪə
Elea
ˈiːlɪə
Elia
ˈiːlɪə
epithelia
ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪə
grindelia
ɡrɪnˈdiːlɪə
Karelia
kəˈriːlɪə
lobelia
ləʊˈbiːlɪə
mycelia
maɪˈsiːlɪə
parhelia
pɑːˈhiːlɪə
phacelia
fəˈsiːlɪə
stapelia
stəˈpiːlɪə
syringomyelia
səˌrɪŋɡəʊmaɪˈiːlɪə
telia
ˈtiːlɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EUTRAPELIA

euthanasiast
euthanasic
euthanasy
euthanatise
euthanatize
euthanaze
euthanise
euthanize
euthenics
euthenist
eutherian
euthymia
euthyroid
eutrapely
eutrophic
eutrophication
eutrophy
eutropic
eutropous
eutropy

WORDS THAT END LIKE EUTRAPELIA

aphelia
borrelia
bumelia
cimelia
dysmelia
Eastern Rumelia
endothelia
mesothelia
Morelia
parakelia
paranthelia
perihelia
phocomelia
promycelia
psychedelia
Roumelia
Rumelia
sprekelia
triskelia
water lobelia

Synonyms and antonyms of eutrapelia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «eutrapelia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EUTRAPELIA

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The translations of eutrapelia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eutrapelia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

eutrapelia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eutrapelia
570 millions of speakers

English

eutrapelia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

eutrapelia
380 millions of speakers
ar

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eutrapelia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

eutrapelia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

eutrapelia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

eutrapelia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

eutrapélie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Eutrapelia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eutrapelia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

eutrapelia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

eutrapelia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eutrapelia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

eutrapelia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

eutrapelia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युट्रपेलिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eutrapelia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eutrapelia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

eutrapelia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

eutrapelia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

eutrapelia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

eutrapelia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eutrapelia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eutrapelia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eutrapelia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of eutrapelia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EUTRAPELIA»

The term «eutrapelia» is used very little and occupies the 173.730 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EUTRAPELIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eutrapelia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUTRAPELIA»

Discover the use of eutrapelia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eutrapelia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Man at Play
V Eutrapelia: A Forgotten Virtue1 Did you ever practise eutrapelia? An odd question. Most of us have never even heard this strange Greek word, "eutrapelia" , and scarcely anyone knows anything about the virtue which bears this name.
Hugo Rahner, 1967
2
A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares
13 Eutrapelia and Exemplarity in the Novelas ejemplares Colin Thompson St Catherine 's College, Oxford In one of the four aprobaciones to the Novelas ejemplares, Fray Juan Bautista wrote:1 [. . .] supuesto que es sentencia llana del  ...
Stephen F. Boyd, 2005
3
The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in ...
This mean condition is eutrapelia, a moderate and judicious delight. Let Aristotle define his own term as the theologians could read him in the complete Latin translation of Robert Grosseteste:83 Virtus autem circa passiones et operaciones est ...
Christopher Page, 1990
4
Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition
There, quite explicitly, eutrapelia means ' true wit ' in the sense not only of a virtuous mean but also of a gentlemanly ideal. The term also occurs in Aristotle's Rhetoric, in another much-studied passage, where he insists that the orator must  ...
Douglas Duncan, 1979
5
An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports
What needs to come into play in situations between competing allegiances is the classical ideal of eutrapelia, "well-turningness" between one endeavor and another as illustrated in the acclaimed book by Hugo Rahner, Man at Play. Drawing ...
Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell, 2004
6
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis:
scurrilous loquacity.14 Bechmann and Staudt argued that eutrapelia consisted of elegance, urbanity and kindness as well as of pleasantry, charm and wit.15 In their view, wit made men agreeable, promoted persuasion and strengthened ...
ALEJANDRO COROLEU, Astrid Steiner-Weber, DOMENICO DEFILIPPIS, 2012
7
Metamorphosis: Creative Imagination in Fine Arts Between ...
What allows Francis to do this is a virtue much neglected in discussions of the religious life: eutrapelia or playfulness.6 Aristotle coined the word, Aquinas expounded on it. It is used in two ways, one practical, and one aesthetic. In the practical ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2004
8
In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary ...
Aristotle's Eutrapelia Eco's reconstruction of Aristotle's lost treatise on comedy finds support in the work of Lane Cooper and Richard Janko.7 They both make use of an anonymous manuscript on comedy, thought by some to be a mere Byzan- ...
Jim Kanaris, Mark J. Doorley, 2012
9
Summa Theologica:
Hence there is another virtue about the pleasures of games, which the Philosopher "eutrapelia" [*{eutrapelia}] (Ethic. iv, 8). It is therefore evident that, according to Aristotle, there are ten moral virtues about the passions, viz. fortitude , ...
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), 1985
10
Cervantes' Exemplary Fictions: A Study of the Novelas Ejemplares
Fray Juan declares that Cervantes' Novelas embody the Christian virtue of eutrapelia: he visto y leido las doce Novelas ejemplares compues- tas por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; y supuesto que es sentencia llana del angelico doctor ...
Thomas R. Hart

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EUTRAPELIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eutrapelia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Speak Well, Says St. Francis de Sales
There is a light-hearted talk, full of modest life and gaiety, which the Greeks called Eutrapelia , and which we should call good conversation, ... «Patheos, Jan 15»
2
Women to Watch: Cuban Producer Ivonne Cotorruelo
Ivonne Cotorruelo P: ivonne.eutrapelia [AT] gmail.com. This article is related to: Ivonne Cortorruelo , Cuba, Women in Film, Women to Watch ... «Indie Wire, Aug 14»
3
Peter Serracino Inglott biography goes international
Focusing on Fr Peter's unsurpassed admiration for Hugo Rahner's Man at Play or Eutrapelia, the Bulletin describes the biography as a ... «Times of Malta, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Eutrapelia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/eutrapelia>. Apr 2024 ».
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