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ἀκαταστασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκαταστασία

Structure: ακαταστασι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. disorder, instability, agitation

Declension

First 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

  • γυνὴ μεγαλόφωνοσ καὶ γλωσσώδησ ὡσ σάλπιγξ πολέμων εἰσ τροπὴν θεωρηθήσεται, ἀνθρώπου δὲ παντὸσ ψυχὴ ὁμοιότροποσ τούτοισ, πολέμου ἀκαταστασίαισ τὴν ψυχὴν διαιτηθήσεται]. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 26:27)
  • ἐν τοιαύταισ δ’ ἀκαταστασίαισ τῆσ πόλεωσ οὔσησ ἐκεχειρία τισ ἐν τῷ διὰ μέσου γενομένη θυσιῶν πατρίων ἕνεκα καὶ πανηγύρεισ ἐπιλαβοῦσαι λαμπραὶ ταῖσ δαπάναισ ἐπέσχον τὴν ἐν τῷ παρόντι τοῦ πλήθουσ διχοστασίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 31 1:1)
  • τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν Ἤπειρον ἔτ’ ἐν ἀκαταστασίαισ ἦν καὶ ταραχαῖσ, ὡσ κατὰ τοὺσ ἐπάνω χρόνουσ, διὰ τὴν Χάροποσ ὠμότητα καὶ παρανομίαν, ἐξ οὗ συνέβη τελεσθῆναι τὸν πρὸσ Περσέα πόλεμον. (Polybius, Histories, book 32, chapter 5 5:1)

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

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