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ἄθλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθλησις

Structure: ἀθλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)qle/w

Sense

  1. a contest, struggle

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄθλησις ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσεις
Genitive ἀθλήσεως ἀθλήσοιν ἀθλήσεων
Dative ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσοιν ἀθλήσεσιν*
Accusative ά̓θλησιν ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσεις
Vocative ά̓θλησι ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσεις

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

  • ἂν μέγασ σῦσ ἐπιφανῇ, μεῖζον ἆθλον ἀθλήσεισ· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. a contest

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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