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αἴσθημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἴσθημα

Structure: αἰσθηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from ai)sqa/nomai

Sense

  1. perception of a thing

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

  • τὸ μὲν οὖν μήτε τὰ αἰσθητὰ εἶναι μήτε τὰ αἰσθήματα ἴσωσ ἀληθέσ τοῦ γὰρ αἰσθανομένου πάθοσ τοῦτό ἐστι, τὸ δὲ τὰ ὑποκείμενα μὴ εἶναι, ἃ ποιεῖ τὴν αἴσθησιν, καὶ ἄνευ αἰσθήσεωσ, ἀδύνατον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 161:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ τούτοισ διὰ τὸ μὴ ὁμοίωσ διακεῖσθαι τὴν ἕξιν καὶ ὅθ’ ὑγίαινον, οὐχ ὅμοια φαίνεται τὰ κατὰ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ, αὐτὰ μὲν οὐδεμιᾶσ διά γε τοῦτο μεταβολῆσ κοινωνοῦντα τὰ αἰσθητά, αἰσθήματα δ’ ἕτερα ποιοῦντα τοῖσ κάμνουσι καὶ μὴ τὰ αὐτά· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 90:1)

Synonyms

  1. perception of a thing

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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