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διακώλυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διακώλυσις διακώλυσεως

Structure: διακωλυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diakwlu/w

Sense

  1. a hindering

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

  • πρὸσ δύο δή μοι διττὰσ ἀναγκαῖον ποιήσασθαι τὰσ ἀπολογίασ, πρῶτον μὲν ὡσ εἰκότωσ σοι ἔφυγον κοινωνεῖν περὶ τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ πράγματα, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον ὡσ οὐκ ἐμὴν ταύτην εἴρηκασ συμβουλὴν οὐδὲ διακώλυσιν, μέλλοντί σοι κατοικίζειν Ἑλληνίδασ πόλεισ ἐμποδὼν ἐμὲ γεγενῆσθαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 3 10:1)
  • οὐ διακωλύσεισ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 22)
  • ἐατέον ἄρα τὰσ νεκροσυλίασ καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀναιρέσεων διακωλύσεισ; (Plato, Republic, book 5 495:1)
  • οὐ τὸ μὴ βούλεσθαι, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ἀλλ’ εἴπερ, τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι διακωλύσει· (Plato, Republic, book 6 281:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hindering

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

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