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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

  • οὐ πόρρω δὲ τούτου τεταγμένον ἔχει τινὰ χάριν τὸ τῆσ ἀντιθέσεωσ, ὅταν, ἐφ’ ᾧ τισ ἐγκαλεῖται, τούτου τοὐναντίον αἰσχρὸν ἀποδεικνύῃ καὶ φαῦλον. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 81)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τῶν δακτύλων ἔλαττον ἔχει τοῦ γράφοντοσ ἢ ψάλλοντοσ ὁ μὴ δυνάμενοσ τοῦτο ποιεῖν μηδὲ πεφυκώσ, ἀλλὰ συγκινοῦνται καὶ συνεργοῦσιν ἅπαντεσ ἁμωσγέπωσ ἀλλήλοισ, ὥσπερ ἐπίτηδεσ ἄνισοι γεγονότεσ καὶ τὸ συλληπτικὸν ἐξ ἀντιθέσεωσ πρὸσ τὸν μέγιστον καὶ ῥωμαλεώτατον ἔχοντεσ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 15 1:2)
  • ἁμωσγέπωσ ἀλλήλοισ, ὥσπερ ἐπίτηδεσ ἄνισοι γεγονότεσ καὶ τὸ συλληπτικὸν ἐξ ἀντιθέσεωσ πρὸσ τὸν μέγιστον καὶ ῥωμαλεώτατον ἔχοντεσ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 15 2:1)
  • πολὺ γάρ ἐστι καὶ ἄφθονον ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ ψυχῆσ ἀμοιροῦσι καὶ οὐδὲν ἑτέρασ δεόμεθα πρὸσ τὸ λογικὸν ἀντιθέσεωσ ἀλλὰ πᾶν εὐθὺσ τὸ ἄψυχον ὡσ ἄλογον καὶ ἀνόητον ἀντίκειται τῷ μετὰ ψυχῆσ λόγον ἔχοντι καὶ διάνοιαν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 32)
  • δεῖ ἄρα τούτων στοχάζεσθαι τριῶν, μεταφορᾶσ ἀντιθέσεωσ ἐνεργείασ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 10 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. opposition

  2. contradiction

  3. change or transposition of a letter

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