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ἀποσιώπησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποσιώπησις

Structure: ἀποσιωπησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)posiwpa/w

Sense

  1. a becoming silent
  2. a rhetorical figure, when the sentence is broken off

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀποσιώπησις ἀποσιωπήσει ἀποσιωπήσεις
Genitive ἀποσιωπήσεως ἀποσιωπήσοιν ἀποσιωπήσεων
Dative ἀποσιωπήσει ἀποσιωπήσοιν ἀποσιωπήσεσιν*
Accusative ἀποσιώπησιν ἀποσιωπήσει ἀποσιωπήσεις
Vocative ἀποσιώπησι ἀποσιωπήσει ἀποσιωπήσεις

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τήν τε νύκτα κακῶσ κλαίων διήνεγκε καὶ τήν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν ἤδη τῷ βοᾶν καὶ θρηνεῖν ἀπειρηκὼσ ἄναυδοσ ἔκειτο, βαρεῖσ ἀναφέρων στεναγμούσ, δείσαντεσ οἱ φίλοι τήν ἀποσιώπησιν εἰσῆλθον βίᾳ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 52 1:1)

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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