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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

  • διὰ τοῦτ’ οὐ πιστευτέον τῇ βουλῇ περὶ τῶν γιγνομένων ἀποφάσεων, ἐπειδή σε καὶ τοὺσ μετὰ σοῦ τὸ χρυσίον ἔχοντασ ἀποπέφαγκε; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 71:3)
  • τίνα γὰρ τρόπον, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀποφάσεων οἴσετε τὴν ψῆφον; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 26:1)
  • ταῦθ’ ὑμᾶσ ἱκετεύων ἐγὼ δικαιοτέραν πολὺ δέησιν δέομαι τούτων τῶν τοιαῦτα πεπραχότων, μὴ ἐγκαταλιπεῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν οἱ πρόγονοι πολλοὺσ ὑπέμειναν κινδύνουσ, μηδ’ εἰσ ἀδοξίαν αἰσχρὰν ἀγαγεῖν τὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀξίωμα, μηδὲ ἀντικαταλλάξασθαι τὴν πρὸσ τούτουσ χάριν τῶν νόμων καὶ τῶν τοῦ δήμου <ψηφισμάτων> καὶ τῶν τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀποφάσεων. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 25:3)
  • κατά τε γὰρ τοὺσ λόγουσ τοὺσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιστημῶν εἴδη ἔσται πάντων ὅσων ἐπιστῆμαι εἰσί, καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἓν ἐπὶ πολλῶν καὶ τῶν ἀποφάσεων, κατὰ δὲ τὸ νοεῖν τι φθαρέντοσ τῶν φθαρτῶν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 196:2)
  • κατά τε γὰρ τοὺσ λόγουσ τοὺσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιστημῶν ἔσται εἴδη πάντων ὅσων ἐπιστῆμαι εἰσίν, καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἓν ἐπὶ πολλῶν καὶ τῶν ἀποφάσεων, κατὰ δὲ τὸ νοεῖν τι φθαρέντοσ τῶν φθαρτῶν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 13 64:2)

Synonyms

  1. a denial

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

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