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ἀναφώνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναφώνησις

Structure: ἀναφωνησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)nafwne/w

Sense

  1. an outcry, ejaculation

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

  • παρὰ τὰ ἔργα καὶ τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰσ τύχασ ἀποφάσεισ καὶ ἀναφωνήσεισ, ὥσπερ ἐν κατόπτροισ καθαρῶσ παρέχουσι τὴν ἑκάστου διάνοιαν ἀποθεωρεῖν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 7:1)
  • καὶ παρ’ Ἕλλησιν ἡγεμόνων καὶ νομοθετῶν καὶ αὐτοκρατόρων ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν πράξεων αἱ πολλαὶ τύχην ἀναμεμιγμένην ἔχουσιν, αἱ δὲ γιγνόμεναι παρὰ τὰ ἔργα καὶ τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰσ τύχασ ἀποφάσεισ καὶ ἀναφωνήσεισ, ὥσπερ ἐν κατόπτροισ καθαρῶσ παρέχουσι τὴν ἑκάστου διάνοιαν ἀποθεωρεῖν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. an outcry

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

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