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ἀνάδυσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: anadysis

Principal Part: ἀνάδυσις

Structure: ἀναδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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)
  • εὑρ´ισκε 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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