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διακώλυσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: diakōlysis

Principal Part: διακώλυσις διακώλυσεως

Structure: διακωλυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from διακωλύω

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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