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αὔξησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὔξησις

Structure: αὐξησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: au)/cw

Sense

  1. growth, increase

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

  • αὐξήσει κυηθὲν ἑτέρασ ἀνατροφῆσ καὶ χώρασ δέηται. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 12:1)
  • γεννωμένῳ ὁ καρπῷ καὶ μέλλοντἰ τοὺσ μὲν ἐμμήνουσ καὶ καθαρσίουσ ἔκλεισεν ὀχετοὺσ ἡ φύσισ, τοῦ δ’ αἵματοσ ἀντιλαμβανομένη φερομένου τροφῇ χρῆται καὶ κατάρδει τὸ βρέφοσ ἤδη συνιστάμενον καὶ διαπλαττόμενον, ἄχρι οὗ τοὺσ προσήκοντασ ἀριθμοὺσ τῇ ἐντὸσ αὐξήσει κυηθὲν ἑτέρασ ἀνατροφῆσ καὶ χώρασ δέηται. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 3:1)
  • "οὕτω τῶν λοιπῶν ἀριθμῶν, ὅταν αὑτοὺσ πολλαπλασιάσωσιν , εἰσ ἑτέρουσ τελευτώντων τῇ αὐξήσει, μόνοσ ὁ τῶν πέντε καὶ ἓξ γενόμενοσ τοσαυτάκισ αὑτοὺσ ἀναφέρουσι καὶ ἀνασῴζουσιν. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 812)
  • λαμβάνονται δὲ οἱ ἔπαινοι κατὰ τρόπουσ τέσσαρασ, αὐξήσει, παραλείψει, παραβολῇ, εὐφημίᾳ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:6)
  • αὐξήσει μὲν οὖν, οἱο͂ν εἴ τισ θέλοι τὰ τοῦ μύρμηκοσ ἔργα ἐπαινῶν λέγειν ὅτι οἰκονομικώτατόσ ἐστι περὶ τὴν τῶν καρπῶν συγκομιδὴν καὶ περὶ τὴν τούτων ἀπόθεσιν, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀγαθὸσ προϊδέσθαι τὰσ ὡρ́ασ τῶν θεῶν καὶ φρονιμώτατοσ πρὸσ τοὺσ καιροὺσ παρασκευάζεσθαι, καὶ ὅσα ἄν τισ εὑρ́οι μύρμηκα αὐξῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:7)

Synonyms

  1. growth

Related

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

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