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Κρητισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρητισμός Κρητισμοῦ

Structure: Κρητισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cretan behaviour, lying

Declension

Second 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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ λανθάνει πωσ ὁ Περσεὺσ Ὀροάνδην τινὰ Κρῆτα λέμβον ἔχοντα συμπείσασ μετὰ χρημάτων ἀναλαβεῖν αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ κρητισμῷ χρησάμενοσ τὰ μὲν χρήματα νύκτωρ ἀνέλαβεν, ἐκεῖνον δὲ τῆσ ἑτέρασ νυκτὸσ ἥκειν κελεύσασ ἐπὶ τὸν πρὸσ τῷ Δημητρίῳ λιμένα μετὰ τῶν τέκνων καὶ θεραπείασ ἀναγκαίασ, εὐθὺσ ἀφ’ ἑσπέρασ ἀπέπλευσεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 26 1:2)

Similar forms

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

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