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δήμευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δήμευσις

Structure: δημευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. confiscation of one's property

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

  • ἐφ’ οἷσ ἔδοτε μέν τινα καὶ αὐτῷ Μιθριδάτῃ δίκην, ἀπίστῳ τε ἐσ ὑμᾶσ γενομένῳ, καὶ φόνου καὶ δημεύσεων ἐμπλήσαντι ὑμᾶσ, καὶ γῆσ ἀναδασμοὺσ ἐργασαμένῳ καὶ χρεῶν ἀποκοπὰσ καὶ δούλων ἐλευθερώσεισ, καὶ τυράννουσ ἐπ’ ἐνίοισ, καὶ λῃστήρια πολλὰ ἀνά τε γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν, ὡσ εὐθὺσ ὑμᾶσ ἔχειν ἐν πείρᾳ καὶ παραβολῇ οἱούσ ἀνθ’ οἱών προστάτασ ἐπελέγεσθε. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. confiscation of one's property

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

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