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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

  • εὑρ́οι δ’ ἄν τισ οὐκ ὀλίγα καὶ τῶν θεατρικῶν σχημάτων κείμενα παρ’ αὐτῷ, τὰσ παρισώσεισ λέγω καὶ παρομοιώσεισ καὶ παρονομασίασ καὶ ἀντιθέσεισ, ἐν αἷσ ἐπλεόνασε Γοργίασ ὁ Λεοντῖνοσ καὶ οἱ περὶ Πῶλον καὶ Λικύμνιον καὶ πολλοὶ ἄλλοι τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν ἀκμασάντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 3:3)
  • ἐξ αὐτῆσ γὰρ ἔσται τῆσ Ἰσοκράτουσ λέξεωσ τεθείσησ καταφανὴσ ὅ τε τῶν περιόδων ῥυθμὸσ ἐκ παντὸσ διώκων τὸ γλαφυρὸν καὶ τῶν σχημάτων τὸ μειρακιῶδεσ περὶ τὰσ ἀντιθέσεισ καὶ παρισώσεισ καὶ παρομοιώσεισ κατατριβόμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 13 2:3)
  • ἐν γοῦν τοῖσ Περὶ λέξεωσ γραφεῖσι τῶν τε ἄλλων καταμέμφεται τῶν περὶ τὰσ ἀντιθέσεισ καὶ παρισώσεισ καὶ παρομοιώσεισ καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοισ σχήματα διεσπουδακότων καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν Λυσίαν ἐν τούτοισ κατηρίθμηκε, τὸν ὑπὲρ Νικίου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τῶν Ἀθηναίων λόγον, ὃν εἶπεν ἐπὶ Συρακουσίων αἰχμάλωτοσ ὤν, ὡσ ὑπὸ τούτου γεγραμμένον τοῦ ῥήτοροσ παρατιθείσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 152)
  • καὶ ὁ ῥήτωρ δὲ σὺ ἀπόθου τῶν ῥημάτων τὴν τοσαύτην ἀπεραντολογίαν καὶ ἀντιθέσεισ καὶ παρισώσεισ καὶ περιόδουσ καὶ βαρβαρισμοὺσ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα βάρη τῶν λόγων. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 20:1)
  • εὑρ́οι δ’ ἄν τισ οὐκ ὀλίγα καὶ τῶν θεατρικῶν σχημάτων κείμενα παρ’ αὐτῷ, τὰσ παρισώσεισ λέγω καὶ παρομοιώσεισ καὶ παρονομασίασ καὶ ἀντιθέσεισ, ἐν αἷσ ἐπλεόνασε Γοργίασ ὁ Λεοντῖνοσ καὶ οἱ περὶ Πῶλον καὶ Λικύμνιον καὶ πολλοὶ ἄλλοι τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν ἀκμασάντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 24 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. opposition

  2. contradiction

  3. change or transposition of a letter

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