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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

  • πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ὁ Ξενοφάνησ κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σοφίαν ἐπαγωνίζεται, διαβάλλων ὡσ ἄχρηστον καὶ ἀλυσιτελὲσ τὸ τῆσ ἀθλήσεωσ εἶδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 6 3:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ παλαίειν εὐφυῶσ ἐδόκει καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄθλησιν ἔνιοι τῶν φίλων καὶ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων, ἠρώτησεν αὐτούσ μή τι πρὸσ τὴν στρατιωτικὴν ἄσκησιν ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀθλήσεωσ βλαβήσοιτο. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 3 2:1)
  • καὶ τοίνυν τῆσ ἀθλήσεωσ εἵλετο οὐ τὸ ῥᾷστον, ἀλλὰ τὸ χαλεπώτατον· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:3)
  • ὅσα δὲ αὖ περὶ ἀθλήσεωσ, καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀθλητοῦ εἴρηκα ἀποδειχθέντοσ γε ὅτι ἄριστόσ ἐστι τῶν ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:2)
  • τοιοῦτοσ μέντοι ὢν ἀθλίωσ ἐτελεύτησε, τῶν μὲν πόνων τῆσ ἀθλήσεωσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐλθών, τῶν δὲ ἐν τῷ βίῳ τερπνῶν οὐδενὸσ πειραθείσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:2)

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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