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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

  • οἶμαι δὲ καὶ μέλαιναν ἑκάστοτε τὴν γῆν ὑπὸ τῶν ποιητῶν καλεῖσθαι διὰ τὸ σκοτῶδεσ καὶ τὸ ἀφώτιστον ὥστε καὶ τὴν πολυτίμητον ἀντίθεσιν τοῦ σκοτεινοῦ πρὸσ τὸ λαμπρὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ ἀέροσ ὑπάρχειν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 17 16:1)
  • πρὸσ τοῦτο ἀντιθεὶσ ἄνευ προτάσεωσ τὴν ἀντίθεσιν ταύτην, τότε τὴν λύσιν ἐπήνεγκεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 3:3)
  • διαδέχεται δὴ τὴν ὀλίγῳ πρότερον ἐξετασθεῖσαν ἀντίθεσιν ἑτέρα τοιαύτη τισ ἀντίθεσισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 4:8)
  • εἰσαγέσθω δὴ μετὰ τοῦτον ὁ Δημοσθένησ, καὶ λαμβανέσθω κἀκείνου λέξισ ἐκ μιᾶσ τῶν κατὰ Φιλίππου δημηγορίασ, δι’ ἧσ καὶ αὐτὸσ συγκρίνει τὰ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ἔργα τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῶν προγόνων καὶ τοὺσ νέουσ δημαγωγοὺσ τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ, οὐ καθ’ ἓν ἔργον ἕκαστον ἀρχαῖον ἔργῳ καινῷ παρατιθεὶσ οὐδὲ πάντα μικρολογῶν συγκρίσει, ἀλλὰ ὅλῃ τῇ θέσει ποιούμενοσ ὅλην τὴν ἀντίθεσιν διεξοδικὴν οὕτωσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 211)
  • ἣν οὖν τὸ ἔσχατον ἔχει πρὸσ τὸ πρῶτον ἀντίθεσιν καὶ τὸ νέατον πρὸσ τὸ ὕπατον, ταύτην τοῦ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ πρὸσ τὸ λογιστικὸν ἔχοντοσ, οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνωτάτω μὲν εἶναι καὶ πρῶτον ὕπατον δὲ μὴ εἶναι τὸ λογιστικὸν ἀλλ’ ἕτερον. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. opposition

  2. contradiction

  3. change or transposition of a letter

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