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ἄθροισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθροισις

Structure: ἀθροισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)qroi/zw

Sense

  1. a gathering, mustering

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

  • τὴν δ’ Ἑρσιλίαν οἱ μὲν Ὁστίλιον γῆμαι λέγουσιν, ἄνδρα Ῥωμαίων ἐπιφανέστατον, οἱ δ’ αὐτὸν Ῥωμύλον, καὶ γενέσθαι καὶ παῖδασ αὐτῷ, μίαν μὲν θυγατέρα Πρίμαν, τῇ τάξει τῆσ γενέσεωσ οὕτω προσαγορευθεῖσαν, ἕνα δ’ υἱὸν μόνον, ὃν Αὄλλιον μὲν ἐκεῖνοσ ἀπὸ τῆσ γενομένησ ἀθροίσεωσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ τῶν πολιτῶν ὠνόμασεν, οἱ δ’ ὕστερον Ἀβίλλιον. (Plutarch, chapter 14 7:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοῦ Ἀγρίππου τὴν ἀρετὴν θαυμάσασ, ἐν ὀλίγῳ αὔξειν τὴν οἰκείαν ἀρχὴν ἤτοι προσόδοισ χρημάτων ἢ ἄλλῃ δυνάμει τοῦ κοινοῦ δὲ τῆσ εὐθυμίασ ἐπιμελοῖτο πρεσβεύων τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὸ θεῖον, συνεχώρει καὶ γράφει πρὸσ τὸν Πετρώνιον, ἐκεῖνον τῆσ τε ἀθροίσεωσ τοῦ στρατεύματοσ ἐπαινῶν καὶ τοῦ πρὸσ αὐτὸν περὶ αὐτῶν ἐπεσταλκότοσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 355:1)

Synonyms

  1. a gathering

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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