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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

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

  • εἰδὼσ ὅτι ταχινή ἐστιν ἡ ἀπόθεσισ τοῦ σκηνώματόσ μου, καθὼσ καὶ ὁ κύριοσ ἡμῶν Ιἠσοῦσ Χριστὸσ ἐδήλωσέν μοι· (PETROU B, chapter 1 16:1)
  • τότε δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἀντωνίᾳ, φρούριον δ’ ἐστὶν οὕτωσ λεγόμενον, ἡ ἀπόθεσισ αὐτῆσ ἦν διὰ τοιαύτην αἰτίαν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 114:1)

Synonyms

  1. a laying up in store

  2. a putting aside

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

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