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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

  • Σαμψὼν δέ, οὐ γὰρ λανθάνουσιν αὐτὸν ταῦτα μηχανησάμενοι, περὶ μεσοῦσαν ἤδη τὴν νύκτα ἀναστὰσ ἐνράσσει ταῖσ πύλαισ, αὐταῖσ τε φλιαῖσ καὶ μοχλοῖσ ὅση τε ἄλλη περὶ αὐταῖσ ἦν ξύλωσισ ἀράμενοσ κατωμαδὸν εἰσ τὸ ὑπὲρ Ἑβρῶνοσ ὄροσ φέρων κατατίθησιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 396:1)

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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