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ἀντίθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίθεσις ἀντιθέσεως

Structure: ἀντιθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)ntiti/qhmi

Sense

  1. opposition, resistance
  2. contradiction
  3. (rhetoric) antithesis
  4. (grammar) change or transposition of a letter

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

  • ταύτῃ τῇ διαφορᾷ καὶ ἀντιθέσει τὸ ἀίδιον αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸ ἀγένητον ἀφῄρηται. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 8 6:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ τὸ πότερον ἀεὶ ἐν ἀντιθέσει λέγομεν, οἱο͂ν πότερον λευκὸν ἢ μέλαν, καὶ πότερον λευκὸν ἢ οὐ λευκόν πότερον δὲ ἄνθρωποσ ἢ λευκὸν οὐ λέγομεν, ἐὰν μὴ ἐξ ὑποθέσεωσ καὶ ζητοῦντεσ οἱο͂ν πότερον ἦλθε Κλέων ἢ Σωκράτησ ‐ ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀνάγκη ἐν οὐδενὶ γένει τοῦτο· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 10 76:2)

Synonyms

  1. opposition

  2. contradiction

  3. change or transposition of a letter

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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