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ἀνάκρουσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάκρουσις

Structure: ἀνακρουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pushing back, backing water

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

  • βραχὺ γὰρ ἀπέλιπον ξυναμφότεραι διακόσιαι γενέσθαι αἱ μὲν ἐκβολαὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι τὰσ ἀνακρούσεισ καὶ διέκπλουσ ὀλίγαι ἐγίγνοντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 2:2)
  • "καθάπερ γὰρ ἵππον ἡ παραχρῆμα τὸ πταῖσμα καὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν διώκουσα πληγὴ καὶ νύξισ ἐπανορθοῖ καὶ μετάγει πρὸσ τὸ δέον, οἱ δ’ ὕστερον καὶ μετὰ χρόνον σπαραγμοὶ καὶ ἀνακρούσεισ καὶ περιψοφήσεισ ἑτέρου τινὸσ ἕνεκα μᾶλλον δοκοῦσι, γίγνεσθαι ἢ διδασκαλίασ, διὸ τὸ λυποῦν ἄνευ τοῦ παιδεύειν ἔχουσιν· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 32)
  • ποιουμένων δὲ τὰσ ἀνακρούσεισ τῶν μὲν ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλόν, τῶν δ’ εἰσ μέσον τὸν λιμένα, τινῶν δὲ πρὸσ τὰ τείχη, ταχέωσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων διεσπάσθησαν αἱ τριήρεισ ἅπασαι, καὶ χωρισθέντων ἀπὸ τῶν κλείθρων πλήρησ ἦν ὁ λιμὴν τῶν κατ’ ὀλίγουσ ναυμαχούντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 13 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pushing back

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

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