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ἀνάδυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάδυσις

Structure: ἀναδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)nadu/omai

Sense

  1. a drawing back, retreat, a holding back

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

  • ἡ τὴν παρεμβολὴν σκιάζουσα νεφέλη, ἐκ δὲ προϋφεστῶτοσ ὕδατοσ ξηρᾶσ ἀνάδυσισ γῆσ ἐθεωρήθη, ἐξ ἐρυθρᾶσ θαλάσσησ ὁδὸσ ἀνεμπόδιστοσ καὶ χλοηφόρον πεδίον ἐκ κλύδωνοσ βιαίου. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:7)
  • εὑρ́ισκε νὴ Δί’, εἴπερ ἀναδύσει πάλιν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 3:1)
  • ἄλλ’ οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀνάδυσισ τῆσ στρατείασ ἐξέπλευσε, καὶ τῶν νεῶν ἑξήκοντα μὲν ἀπέστειλεν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον, ταῖσ δ’ ἄλλαισ πάλιν ἔπλει. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 4:4)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν γάρ μοι ἀνάδυσισ, ὦ Εὐθύδημε. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 412:8)
  • φυγὴ δ’ οὐκέτι ἦν οὐδ’ ἐκ τῶν περιεχόντων ἀνάδυσισ, καὶ σαφὲσ μὲν οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ τι τῶν οἴκοθεν ἀπηγγέλλετο διὰ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἀπειλήν, ὑπελείπετο δὲ ἐλπὶσ ἱλαρωτέρα, τάχα μὲν μηδὲν πεφωρᾶσθαι, τάχα δ’, εἴ τι καὶ πεφώραται, διασκευάσειν ἀναιδείᾳ καὶ δόλοισ, ἅπερ ἦν αὐτῷ μόνα τὰ τῆσ σωτηρίασ ἐφόδια. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 865:1)

Synonyms

  1. a drawing back

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

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