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διάρριψις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάρριψις διάρριψεως

Structure: διαρριψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diarri/ptw

Sense

  1. a scattering

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν διάρριψισ, ἔφη ὁ Ξενοφῶν, τοιαύτη τισ ἐγένετο. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 8:1)
  • καὶ τότε οὖν ἐπεὶ τὸ πρῶτον γίνεται ἡ ἄνοιξισ αὐτῶν, ἄνδρεσ Σαμαρεῖται κρύφα εἰσ Ιἑροσόλυμα ἐλθόντεσ διάρριψιν ἀνθρωπείων ὀστῶν ἐν ταῖσ στοαῖσ καὶ διὰ παντὸσ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἤρξαντο μὴ πρότερον ἐπὶ τοιούτοισ νομίζοντεσ τά τε ἄλλα διὰ φυλακῆσ μείζονοσ ἦγον τὸ ἱερόν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 40:1)

Synonyms

  1. a scattering

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

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