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ἀπολύτρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολύτρωσις

Structure: ἀπολυτρωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)polutro/w

Sense

  1. a ransoming, redemption by payment of ransom

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀπολύτρωσις ἀπολυτρώσει ἀπολυτρώσεις
Genitive ἀπολυτρώσεως ἀπολυτρώσοιν ἀπολυτρώσεων
Dative ἀπολυτρώσει ἀπολυτρώσοιν ἀπολυτρώσεσιν*
Accusative ἀπολύτρωσιν ἀπολυτρώσει ἀπολυτρώσεις
Vocative ἀπολύτρωσι ἀπολυτρώσει ἀπολυτρώσεις

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

  • αὐλοὶ δὲ καὶ ψαλμοὶ καὶ μέθαι παρὰ πᾶσαν ἀκτὴν καὶ σωμάτων ἡγεμονικῶν ἁρπαγαὶ καὶ πόλεων αἰχμαλώτων ἀπολυτρώσεισ ὄνειδοσ ἦσαν τῆσ Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίασ, ἐγένοντο δ’ οὖν αἱ μὲν λῃστρίδεσ νῆεσ ὑπὲρ χιλίασ, αἱ δὲ ἁλοῦσαι πόλεισ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν τετρακόσιαι. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 24 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ransoming

Similar forms

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

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