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ἅλωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλωσις

Structure: ἁλωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a taking, capture, conquest, destruction, conquest, means of conquest, power to escape
  2. conviction

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

  • ὅτι ἀπὸ φωνῆσ ἁλώσεωσ Βαβυλῶνοσ σεισθήσεται ἡ γῆ, καὶ κραυγὴ ἐν ἔθνεσιν ἀκουσθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:46)
  • ἔνδοθεν δὲ πολλαὶ προδοσίαι συναγωνίζονται τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀρέγουσαι καὶ τὰσ πύλασ ἀναπετῶσαι καὶ πάντα τρόπον τῇ ἁλώσει τοῦ ἀκούοντοσ συμπροθυμούμεναι. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 21:2)
  • εἶτα ἐπηκολούθησε τὰ περὶ Ἀκυληϊάν γενόμενα καὶ ἡ παρὰ μικρὸν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκείνησ ἅλωσισ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 48:7)
  • ἦν τισ Πριαμιδῶν νεώτατοσ, Πολύδωροσ, Ἑκάβησ παῖσ, ὃν ἐκ Τροίασ ἐμοὶ πατὴρ δίδωσι Πρίαμοσ ἐν δόμοισ τρέφειν, ὕποπτοσ ὢν δὴ Τρωικῆσ ἁλώσεωσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:25)
  • εἰ δὲ παραληρῶν ἁλώσει κἀκβαλεῖσ τι μαλθακόν, αὖθισ αἴρεσθαί σ’ ἀνάγκη ’σται πάλιν τὰ στρώματα. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 15)
  • τοῦ δὲ πολέμου πολλὰσ ἰδέασ ἔχοντοσ, ἠνίασε μάλιστα τὸν Πομπήϊον ἡ Λαύρωνοσ ἅλωσισ ὑπὸ Σερτωρίου. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 18 3:1)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ἀπηγγέλθη θατέρῳ τῶν ὑπάτων ἡ τοῦ χάρακοσ ἅλωσισ, ἠπείγετο σὺν τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ ἱππέων τε καὶ πεζῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 12 5:2)
  • ἡ δὲ δὴ Πλαταιῶν ἅλωσισ τῆσ πόλεωσ τῇ σμικρότητι . (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 9 5:1)
  • καὶ ἡ Μήλου καὶ Σκιώνησ ἅλωσισ, νησιωτικά τι προσέβαλεν ἢ ἐσ τὸ ξύμπαν Ἑλληνικὸν μέγαν τὸν παράλογον παρέσχε. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 9 5:5)

Synonyms

  1. conviction

Related

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

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