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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

  • 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)

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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