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ἀλέξησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλέξησις

Structure: ἀλεξησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/cw

Sense

  1. a keeping off, defence

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

  • ἀλλὰ πολὺ πρὶν φράζευ ὅπωσ Δαναοῖσιν ἀλεξήσεισ κακὸν ἦμαρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 19:4)
  • οὐκ ἔχω δ’ ἀτρεκέωσ εἰπεῖν οὔτε εἰ ἦλθον μὲν ἀπολέοντεσ τοὺσ Φωκέασ δεηθέντων Θεσσαλῶν, ἐπεὶ δὲ ὡρ́ων πρὸσ ἀλέξησιν τραπομένουσ, δείσαντεσ μὴ καὶ σφίσι γένηται τρώματα, οὕτω δὴ ἀπήλαυνον ὀπίσω· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 18 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a keeping off

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

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