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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

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

  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. a contest

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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