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ἀφαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφαίρεσις

Structure: ἀφαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)faire/w

Sense

  1. a taking away, carrying off

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

  • ἴσωσ γὰρ ἔβλαψε τῇ κτήσει τῶν χρημάτων τὴν Σπάρτην οὗτοσ ὅσον οὐκ ἔβλαψε τῇ ἀφαιρέσει τὴν Ῥώμην ἐκεῖνοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chapter 3 4:3)
  • ἐκβαλεῖν τε γὰρ ἔξεστι συγκλήτου τὸν ἀπρεπῶσ ζῶντα τοῖσ τιμηταῖσ, καὶ προγράψαι τὸν ἄριστον, ἵππου τ’ ἀφαιρέσει τῶν νέων ἀτιμάσαι τὸν ἀκολασταίνοντα. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 38 5:2)
  • καθάπερ γὰρ οἱ Κελτίβηρεσ ἐκ τοῦ σιδήρου τὸ στόμωμα ποιοῦσιν, ὅταν κατορύξαντεσ εἰσ τὴν γῆν τὸ πολὺ καὶ γεῶδεσ ἀποκαθάρωσιν, οὕτωσ ὁ Λακωνικὸσ λόγοσ οὐκ ἔχει φλοιόν, ἀλλ’ εἰσ αὐτὸ τὸ δραστήριον ἀφαιρέσει τοῦ περιττοῦ διακούμενοσ στομοῦται· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 17 2:1)
  • κατορύξαντεσ εἰσ τὴν γῆν τὸ πολὺ καὶ γεῶδεσ ἀποκαθήρωσιν, οὕτωσ ὁ Λακωνικὸσ λόγοσ οὐκ ἔχει φλοιόν, ἀλλ’ εἰσ αὐτὸ τὸ δραστήριον ἀφαιρέσει τοῦ περιττοῦ διωκόμενοσ στομοῦται· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 17 4:1)
  • καὶ μὴν οὔτε ζῷον οὔτ’ ὄργανον οὔθ’ ὅπλον οὔτ’ ἄλλο τῶν ὄντων οὐδὲν οἰκείου μέρουσ ἀφαιρέσει καὶ στερήσει πέφυκε γίγνεσθαι κάλλιον οὐδ’ ἐνεργέστερον οὐδ’ ἣδιον· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 10, section 41)

Synonyms

  1. a taking away

Related

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

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