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ἀπαίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαίτησις

Structure: ἀπαιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)paite/w

Sense

  1. a demanding back, formal demand

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

  • καὶ οὕτω τὸ πρόσταγμα τῆσ ἀφέσεωσ. ἀφήσεισ πᾶν χρέοσ ἴδιον, ὃ ὀφείλει σοι ὁ πλησίον, καὶ τὸν ἀδελφόν σου οὐκ ἀπαιτήσεισ, ἐπικέκληται γὰρ ἄφεσισ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:2)
  • τὸν ἀλλότριον ἀπαιτήσεισ ὅσα ἐὰν ᾖ σοι παῤ αὐτῷ, τῷ δὲ ἀδελφῷ σου ἄφεσιν ποιήσεισ τοῦ χρέουσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:3)
  • τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐγκλημάτων πρότερον τὰσ ἀπαιτήσεισ ποιοῦνται ἅπαντεσ ἢ δικάζονται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 35:1)
  • ἐκκλησίαι τε συνεχεῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν τότε δημάρχων ἐγίνοντο καὶ ἀπαιτήσεισ τῆσ ὑποσχέσεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 81 3:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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