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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

  • τὰσ δὲ διαπράσεισ τῶν δεδημευμένων οἴκων οὕτωσ ὑπερηφάνωσ ἐποιεῖτο καὶ δεσποτικῶσ ἐπὶ βήματοσ καθεζόμενοσ, ὥστε τῶν ἀφαιρέσεων ἐπαχθεστέρασ αὐτοῦ τὰσ δωρεὰσ εἶναι, καὶ γυναιξὶν εὐμόρφοισ καὶ λυρῳδοῖσ καὶ μίμοισ καὶ καθάρμασιν ἐξελευθερικοῖσ ἐθνῶν χώρασ καὶ πόλεων χαριζομένου προσόδουσ, ἐνίοισ δὲ γάμουσ ἀκουσίωσ ζευγνυμένων γυναικῶν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 33 2:1)

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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