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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

  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀφ’ ἑαυτῶν αὐξήσεωσ ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσι μεγάλοισ γενέσθαι κοινὸν ἀμφοτέροισ ὑπῆρξεν, ἴδιον δὲ Λυσάνδρου τὸ βουλομένων τῶν πολιτῶν καὶ ὑγιαινόντων ὅσασ ἔσχεν ἀρχὰσ λαβεῖν, βιάσασθαι δὲ μηδὲν ἀκόντων μηδ’ ἰσχῦσαι παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, chapter 1 1:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἤδη πρὸσ τὰ πρῶτα τῆσ αὐξήσεωσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ βαδίζω, καὶ σκοπῶ τί τὸ τῆσ Τύχησ ἔργον ἐν ἐκείνοισ γέγονε, δι’ ὅ φασιν Ἀλέξανδρον ὑπὸ τῆσ Τύχησ μέγαν γεγονέναι. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 8 2:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἤδη πρὸσ τὰ πρῶτα τῆσ αὐξήσεωσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ βαδίζω, καὶ σκοπῶ τί τὸ τῆσ Τύχησ ἔργον ἐν ἐκείνοισ γέγονε, δι’ ὅ φασιν Ἀλέξανδρον ὑπὸ τῆσ Τύχησ μέγαν γεγονέναι. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 8 1:1)
  • ἑώρων γὰρ αὐτὸν οὐ πλοῦτον, οὐ δόξαν, οὐ φιλίαν βασιλικήν, οὐ τὸ τῆσ αὑτοῦ πατρίδοσ συμφέρον, οὐκ ἄλλο τι τῆσ αὐξήσεωσ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐπίπροσθεν ποιούμενον. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 24 4:3)
  • ἴδιον δὲ δή που σχῆμα πεύσεωσ, ἴδιον δ’ ἀνθυποφορᾶσ, ἴδιον δ’ αὐξήσεωσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 54 2:3)

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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