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ἄθλησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: athlēsis

Principal Part: ἄθλησις

Structure: ἀθλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἀθλέω

Sense

  1. a contest, struggle

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄθλησις ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσεις
Genitive ἀθλήσεως ἀθλήσοιν ἀθλήσεων
Dative ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσοιν ἀθλήσεσι(ν)
Accusative ἄθλησιν ἀθλήσει ἀθλήσεις
Vocative ἄθλησι 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

  • ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ἀπήλλακται ὄρχησις καὶ τῆς ἐναγωνίου χειρονομίας ἀλλὰ μετέχει καὶ τῶν Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Πολυδεύκους καὶ Ἡρακλέους ἐν ἀθλήσει καλῶν ἴδοις ἂν ἑκάστῃ τῶν μιμήσεων ἐπισχών. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 78:1)
  • 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)
  • μόνης γὰρ εὐψυχίας ἐπίδειξις ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς, ἡ δὲ ἄθλησις ἅμα μὲν ἀνδρείαν, ἅμα δὲ ἰσχύν, ἅμα δὲ σωφροσύνην ἐμποιεῖ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:2)
  • καὶ τοίνυν τῆς ἀθλήσεως εἵλετο οὐ τὸ ῥᾷστον, ἀλλὰ τὸ χαλεπώτατον: (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:3)

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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