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ξύλωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξύλωσις

Structure: ξυλωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from culo/w

Sense

  1. the woodwork of a house, frame-work

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

  • εἰσ ὕλην μὲν ξύλωσιν ἐκ τῆσ Αἴτνησ παρεσκεύαστο ἑξήκοντα τετρηρικῶν σκαφῶν πλῆθοσ ἐξεργάσασθαι δυναμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 40 2:1)
  • χρυσῷ δὲ τά τ’ ἐντὸσ καὶ τὰ ἔξωθεν περιελήλατο πᾶσα, ὡσ ἀποκεκρύφθαι τὴν ξύλωσιν, στρόφιγξί τε χρυσοῖσ τὸ ἐπίθεμα προσηνωμένον εἶχε θαυμαστῶσ, ὃ πανταχόθεν ἴσον ἦν κατ’ οὐδέτερον μέροσ ἐξοχαῖσ τὴν εὐαρμοστίαν λυμαινόμενον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 169:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ξύλωσιν παρέχων πίσσησ τε καὶ κηροῦ πλέον ἔτι δὲ χρυσὸν ἐπαληλιμμένον εὐθέωσ ήκειν, ἔργα τε μεγάλα ἐκεῖνα καὶ ἀξιολογώτατα ἠφανίζετο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 313:1)

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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