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βλαίσωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βλαίσωσις

Structure: βλαισωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: as if from blaiso/w

Sense

  1. distortion, retortion

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βλαίσωσις βλαισώσει βλαισώσεις
Genitive βλαισώσεως βλαισώσοιν βλαισώσεων
Dative βλαισώσει βλαισώσοιν βλαισώσεσιν*
Accusative βλαίσωσιν βλαισώσει βλαισώσεις
Vocative βλαίσωσι βλαισώσει βλαισώσεις

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

  • καὶ ἡ βλαίσωσισ τοῦτο ἐστίν, ὅταν δυοῖν ἐναντίοιν ἑκατέρῳ ἀγαθὸν καὶ κακὸν ἕπηται, ἐναντία ἑκάτερα ἑκατέροισ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 15:8)

Synonyms

  1. distortion

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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