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διάδυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάδυσις διάδυσεως

Structure: διαδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a passage through, evasions

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

  • μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν οὖν ὑπεστέλλετο τῶν πολεμίων πάντα διειληφότων, νυκτὸσ δ’ ἀνιὼν ἐζήτει δρασμοῦ διάδυσιν καὶ τὰσ φυλακὰσ κατεσκέπτετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 413:1)
  • ὀψὲ δέ ποτε ὀπήν τε εἶδεν ἀλώπεκι ἐσ διάδυσιν ἱκανὴν καὶ φέγγοσ δι’ αὐτῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 9:5)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν θερμὰ ἐκλελεῖφθαι εἰκόσ, τὸ δὲ ψυχρὸν κατὰ διάδυσιν ὑπεκρέον ἐκ τοῦ Σκαμάνδρου κατὰ τοῦτ’ ἀνατέλλειν τὸ χωρίον, ἢ καὶ διὰ τὸ πλησίον εἶναι τοῦ Σκαμάνδρου καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ὕδωρ λέγεσθαι τοῦ Σκαμάνδρου πηγήν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 71:12)

Synonyms

  1. a passage through

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

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