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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

  • ἀντίθεσισ δ’ ἐστὶ τριττῶσ, ὅταν τῷ αὐτῷ τὰ ἐναντία ἢ τῷ ἐναντίῳ τὰ αὐτὰ ἢ τοῖσ ἐναντίοισ ἐναντία προσκατηγορηθῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:2)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ κατὰ στέρησιν καὶ ἕξιν ἀντίθεσισ πολεμικὴ καὶ ἀσύμβατόσ ἐστιν, οὐσίαν θατέρου τὴν θατέρου φθορὰν ἔχοντοσ· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • ἀξιόπιστον καὶ τὸ ἐνίαισ τῶν ἀντιθέσεων ὧν δοκοῦσι καθ’ ἡμῶν λέγειν οἱ ἀντίδικοι συγχωρεῖν καὶ συγκατατίθεσθαι, ὡσ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μειδίου ἡ μὲν ἐκεῖθεν ἀντίθεσισ, τάχα νῦν καὶ τοιαῦτα ἐρεῖ, ὡσ ἐσκεμμένα πάντα λέγω ἐγώ, εἶτα ἡ παρ’ αὐτοῦ συγχώρησισ μεθ’ ὑπερβολῆσ, ἐγὼ δέ γ’ ἐσκέφθαι μὲν ὁμολογῶ καὶ μεμελετηκέναι ὡσ ἐνῆν μάλιστα ἐμοί. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 16:1)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα ἀντίθεσισ πρώτη μέν, ἀλλὰ χαλεπὴ λαβεῖν ἡ Σικελία. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:9)
  • διαδέχεται δὴ τὴν ὀλίγῳ πρότερον ἐξετασθεῖσαν ἀντίθεσιν ἑτέρα τοιαύτη τισ ἀντίθεσισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. opposition

  2. contradiction

  3. change or transposition of a letter

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