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ἀπόθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόθεσις

Structure: ἀποθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a laying up in store
  2. a putting aside, getting rid of

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀπόθεσις ἀποθέσει ἀποθέσεις
Genitive ἀποθέσεως ἀπόθουιν ἀποθέσεων
Dative ἀποθέσει ἀπόθουιν ἀποθέσεσιν*
Accusative ἀπόθεσιν ἀποθέσει ἀποθέσεις
Vocative ἀπόθεσι ἀποθέσει ἀποθέσεις

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

  • ἰσχάδων δὲ ὕστερον ἤλθομεν τῆσ ἀποθέσεωσ, τὰ δὲ μύρτα ἀποτεθέντα κατεσάπη· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 12:1)
  • περὶ δὲ ἀποθέσεωσ καὶ τροφῆσ τῶν γιγνομένων ἔστω νόμοσ μηδὲν πεπηρωμένον τρέφειν, διὰ δὲ πλῆθοσ τέκνων ἡ τάξισ τῶν ἐθῶν κωλύῃ μηθὲν ἀποτίθεσθαι τῶν γιγνομένων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 291:2)
  • τυσοῦτον ἦν ἄρα τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν ἔτι τῆσ ἀρχῆσ αὐτοῦ δέοσ ἢ τῆσ ἀποθέσεωσ κατάπληξισ ἢ τῶν εὐθυνῶν τῆσ ἐπαγγελίασ αἰδὼσ ἢ ἄλλη φιλανθρωπία καὶ λογισμὸσ ἐπὶ συμφέροντι τὴν τυραννίδα γενέσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, PROOIMION 3:4)
  • τὴν δὲ τῆσ εὐσεβείασ ὑπερβολὴν συλλογίσαιτ’ ἄν τισ ἐκ τῆσ κατὰ τὸν ὄνειρον φαντασίασ καὶ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀποθέσεωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 65 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a laying up in store

  2. a putting aside

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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