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αἴσθημα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: aisthēma

Principal Part: αἴσθημα

Structure: αἰσθηματ (Stem)

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)
  • αἴσθημά τοι κἀν νηπίοις γε τῶν κακῶν ἐγγίγνεται. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 3:20)

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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