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Ὀρθωσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρθωσία

Structure: Ὀρθωσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = O)rqi/a, Hdt., Pind.

Sense

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

  • περίκεινται δὲ ἀξιόλογοι κατοικίαι πέραν τοῦ Μαιάνδρου, Κοσκίνια καὶ Ὀρθωσία· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 86:1)
  • τούτοισ δ’ ἡ Ὀρθωσία συνεχήσ ἐστι καὶ ὁ Ἐλεύθεροσ ὁ πλησίον ποταμόσ, ὅνπερ ὁρ́ιον ποιοῦνταί τινεσ Σελευκίδοσ πρὸσ τὴν Φοινίκην καὶ τὴν κοίλην Συρίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 24:6)
  • εὖτέ νιν ἀγγελίαισ Εὐρυσθέοσ ἔντυ’ ἀνάγκα πατρόθεν χρυσόκερων ἔλαφον θήλειαν ἄξονθ’, ἅν ποτε Ταϋγέτα ἀντιθεῖσ’ Ὀρθωσίᾳ ἔγραψεν ἱράν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 3 11:1)

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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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