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ἄθλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθλησις

Structure: ἀθλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)qle/w

Sense

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

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

a contest
- ἀγωνία (contest, struggle for victory)
- ἀγών (a contest)
- ἆθλον (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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ἄθλησις

Sense

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a contest

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Sense

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a contest

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