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ἀδελφότης?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: adelphotēs

Principal Part: ἀδελφότης ἀδελφότητος

Structure: ἀδελφοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. brotherhood, fraternity
  2. band of brothers, a brotherhood
  3. alliance

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπειράθημεν ἀποστεῖλαι τὴν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἀδελφότητα καὶ φιλίαν ἀνανεώσασθαι πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐξαλλοτριωθῆναι ὑμῶν. πολλοὶ γὰρ καιροὶ διῆλθον ἀφ᾿ οὗ ἀπεστείλατε πρὸς ἡμᾶς. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 12:10)
  • μιμήσασθέ με, ἀδελφοί, λέγων, μή μου τὸν αἰῶνα λιποτακτήσητε μηδ ἐξομόσησθέ μου τὴν τῆς εὐψυχίας ἀδελφότητα. ἱερὰν καὶ εὐγενῆ στρατείαν στρατεύσασθε ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:23)
  • μὰ τὸν μακάριον τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου θάνατον καὶ τὸν αἰώνιον τοῦ τυράννου ὄλεθρον καὶ τὸν ἀΐδιον τῶν εὐσεβῶν βίον οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι τὴν εὐγενῆ ἀδελφότητα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 10:15)
  • πάντας τιμήσατε, τὴν ἀδελφότητα ἀγαπᾶτε, τὸν θεὸν φοβεῖσθε, τὸν βασιλέα τιμᾶτε. (PETROU A, chapter 2 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. alliance

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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