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διαμαρτία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαμαρτία

Structure: διαμαρτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a total mistake, a wrong reckoning

Declension

First 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

  • μετὰ ταῦτα γίνεται διαμαρτία τὸν Ἀννίβου. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 6 1:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ μᾶλλον ὁ λιμὸσ ἐπέτεινε, καὶ διαμαρτία τισ γενομένη περὶ τὴν τοῦ Λύκου διάβασιν πλῆθοσ ἀνθρώπων ἁρπασθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ ἀπώλεσεν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 46 5:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ τοῖσ σὺν Ἀγαμέμνονι ἐσ Τροίαν στρατεύουσιν ἡ διαμαρτία τοῦ πλοῦ γίνεται καὶ ἡ πληγὴ <ἡ> περὶ Μυσίαν, ἐνταῦθα καὶ τὸν Θέρσανδρον κατέλαβεν <ἀποθανεῖν> ὑπὸ Τηλέφου, μάλιστα Ἑλλήνων ἀγαθὸν γενόμενον ἐν τῇ μάχῃ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 20:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ ὁ Ἡφαιστίων τε ὀπίσω ὑπεχώρησε καὶ τισ τῶν ἀμφ̓ αὐτήν, τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον δείξασ, ἐκεῖνον ἔφη εἶναι Ἀλέξανδρον, τὴν μὲν καταιδεσθεῖσαν τῇ διαμαρτίᾳ ὑποχωρεῖν, Ἀλέξανδρον δὲ οὐ φάναι αὐτὴν ἁμαρτεῖν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 12 7:1)
  • πρότερον μὲν οὖν εἰλήφει τὴν περὶ τῆσ Φερώρα τελευτῆσ ἐπιστολὴν ἐν Τάραντι καὶ μέγιστον ἐποιήσατο πένθοσ, ὅ τινεσ ὡσ ἐπὶ θείῳ καθύμνουν, ἦν δ’, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἐπὶ διαμαρτίᾳ τῆσ ἐπιβουλῆσ ἡ σύγχυσισ καὶ οὐ Φερώραν κλαίοντοσ, ἀλλὰ τὸν ὑπηρέτην· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 857:1)

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

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