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ἀφήγησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφήγησις

Structure: ἀφηγησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fhge/omai

Sense

  1. a telling, narrating, telling

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀφήγησις ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις
Genitive ἀφηγήσεως ἀφηγήσοιν ἀφηγήσεων
Dative ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσοιν ἀφηγήσεσιν*
Accusative ἀφήγησιν ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις
Vocative ἀφήγησι ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις

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

  • ὁ δὲ οὐ ταῦτα λέγει εὐθύσ, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξ ἧσ ἤρξατο ταῦτα γίνεσθαι, δοκεῖ δὲ τὸ τοιοῦτο ἀφήγησισ εἶναι μᾶλλον. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 18:8)
  • σκιδναμένων δὲ ἑτέρων ἐφ’ ἑτέροισ, οὐ γὰρ εἰσ ἕνα ἔκειτο πᾶσιν ἀφήγησισ, Σίμων ἀνὴρ γένοσ Ἐσσαῖοσ ἀσφάλειαν αἰτησάμενοσ, μεταβολὴν πραγμάτων ἔλεγεν Ἀρχελάῳ φέρειν τὴν ὄψιν οὐκ ἐπ’ ἀγαθοῖσ πράγμασιν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 418:1)

Synonyms

  1. a telling

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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