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ξενηλασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενηλασία

Structure: ξενηλασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from cenhlate/w

Sense

  1. expulsion of foreigners, an alien act

Declension

First 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

  • "Λυκοῦργοσ ἢ χρεῶν ἀποκοπὰσ ἔδωκεν ἢ ξένουσ κατέταξεν εἰσ τὴν πολιτείαν, ὃσ οὐδὲ ὅλωσ ἐνόμιζεν ὑγιαίνειν τὴν πόλιν μὴ χρωμένην ξενηλασίαισ; (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 10 2:1)
  • τὸ δ’ αὖ μήτε ἄλλουσ δέχεσθαι μήτε αὐτοὺσ ἄλλοσε ἀποδημεῖν ἅμα μὲν οὐκ ἐγχωρεῖ τό γε παράπαν, ἔτι δὲ ἄγριον καὶ ἀπηνὲσ φαίνοιτ’ ἂν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀνθρώποισ, ὀνόμασίν τε χαλεποῖσ ταῖσιν λεγομέναισ ξενηλασίαισ χρωμένουσ καὶ τρόποισ αὐθάδεσι καὶ χαλεποῖσ, ὡσ δοκοῖεν ἄν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 61:2)

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

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