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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 οἱ ἀδελφοί μου καὶ οἱ γνωστοί μου καὶ ἐγὼ ἐθήκαμεν ἑαυτοῖσ ἀργύριον καὶ σῖτον. ἐγκατελίπομεν δὴ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ταύτην. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:10)
  • καὶ λαοὶ τῆσ γῆσ οἱ φέροντεσ τοὺσ ἀγορασμοὺσ καὶ πᾶσαν πρᾶσιν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ σαββάτου ἀποδόσθαι, οὐκ ἀγορῶμεν παρ’ αὐτῶν ἐν σαββάτῳ καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἁγίᾳ. καὶ ἀνήσομεν τὸ ἔτοσ τὸ ἕβδομον καὶ ἀπαίτησιν πάσησ χειρόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 10:31)
  • ὁ δὲ Μενέλαοσ τῆσ μὲν ἀρχῆσ ἐκράτει, τῶν δὲ ἐπηγγελμένων τῷ βασιλεῖ χρημάτων οὐδὲν εὐτάκνει. ποιουμένου δὲ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν Σωστράτου τοῦ τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἐπάρχου, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:27)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἶναι τυραννοκτόνον οὐδὲ πεπρᾶχθαί μοὶ τι κατὰ τὸν νόμον, ἀλλ’ ἐνδεῖν τι τῷ ἔργῳ τῷ ἐμῷ πρὸσ ἀπαίτησιν τῆσ δωρεᾶσ. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 10:2)
  • νῦν οὖν οὕτω τεταγμένων ὁ Νέστωρ φαίνεται τῶν μὲν λοιπῶν πρεσβυτῶν μόνοσ τὸ δέπασ ἀμογητὶ ἀείρων ταῦτα καὶ ὁ θαυμάσιοσ λυτικὸσ Σωσίβιοσ, ὃν οὐκ ἀχαρίτωσ διέπαιξε διὰ τὰσ πολυθρυλήτουσ ταύτασ καὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ λύσεισ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Φιλάδελφοσ βασιλεύσ, λαμβάνοντοσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ σύνταξιν βασιλικήν, μεταπεμψάμενοσ τοὺσ ταμίασ ἐκέλευσεν, ἐὰν παραγένηται ὁ Σωσίβιοσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν τῆσ συντάξεωσ, λέγειν αὐτῷ ὅτι ἀπείληφε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 85 2:2)

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

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