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ἀπόφασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόφασις

Structure: ἀποφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)po/fhmi

Sense

  1. a denial, negation

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

  • αὕτη, Δημόσθενεσ, τῆσ βουλῆσ ἡ ἀπόφασισ οὐκ ἐξηλέγχθη ψευδὴσ οὖσα, ἀληθινῆσ δὲ αὐτῆσ οὔσησ ἔδοξε τοῖσ δικασταῖσ ἀφεῖναι τὸν Πολύευκτον· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 71:1)
  • πότερ’ ἡ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀπόφασισ, ἐὰν μὲν ἡμεῖσ οἱ κατήγοροι δέκα ὄντεσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἀναλώσωμεν ἅπαν καὶ ἀναβοήσωμεν ὡσ δεινόν ἐστιν ἀφεῖσθαι τοὺσ εἰλημμένουσ ἔχοντασ ἐπ’ αὐτοφώρῳ δῶρα κατὰ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ἀληθὴσ καὶ δικαία ἔσται ἡ κατ’ Ἀριστογείτονοσ [ἀπόφασισ]· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 8:3)
  • φαίνεται, νοεῖται στέρησισ, οὐσίασ ἀπόφασισ οὖσα, καθάπερ ὄψεωσ τυφλότησ καὶ φωνῆσ σιωπὴ καὶ σώματοσ ἐρημία καὶ κενόν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 4 1:1)
  • καὶ τούτοισ οὐχ ἥκιστα τοῖσ πάθεσιν ἐνδείκνυται τὸ ψυχρόν, ὅτι πρὸσ τὸ θερμὸν ὡσ οὐσία πρὸσ οὐσίαν ἢ πάθοσ πρὸσ πάθοσ οὐχ ὡσ ἀπόφασισ ἀντίκειται καὶ στέρησισ, οὐδὲ φθορὰ τίσ ἐστι τοῦ θερμοῦ καὶ ἀναίρεσισ ἀλλὰ φθαρτικὴ φύσισ καὶ δύναμισ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 6 3:3)
  • κεφαλαιώδησ γάρ τίσ ἐστιν ἀπόφασισ ‐ ἢ φιλοτιμίαν ‐ τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ δευτέρου μέροσ ἦν τοῦ εἴτε τισ βούλεται νομίσαι μανίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 9 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a denial

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Derived

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

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