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ἀπόκλισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόκλισις

Structure: ἀποκλισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)pokli/_nw

Sense

  1. a turning off, declension, sinking

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

  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ὀρθῶν ἐπιλογισμῶν εἰσ εὐσταθῆ διάθεσιν τελευτώντων ἢρτηται τὸ μακάριον, αἱ δ’ ἀπὸ τῆσ τύχησ τροπαὶ μεγάλασ ἀποκλίσεισ οὐ ποιοῦσιν οὐδ’ ἐπιφέρουσι συγχυτικὰσ ὀλισθήσεισ τοῦ βίου, πολλάκισ ἀκήκοασ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 91)
  • ἡ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἓν σκάφει τὰσ ἀποκλίσεισ ἐπανισοῦσα τῆσ πόλεωσ ἰσχὺσ εἰσ ἓν συνελθοῦσα καὶ γενομένη μία τὴν πάντα πράγματα καταστασιάσασαν καὶ καταβαλοῦσαν ἀνανταγώνιστον ῥοπὴν ἐποίησεν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 47 2:1)

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

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