Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διαστολή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαστολή

Structure: διαστολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: diaste/llw

Sense

  1. a notch or nick

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

  • καὶ δώσω διαστολὴν ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ἐμοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σοῦ λαοῦ. ἐν δὲ τῇ αὔριον ἔσται τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 8:19)
  • ἐὰν δὲ γενομένη γένηται ἀνδρὶ καὶ αἱ εὐχαὶ αὐτῆσ ἐπ’ αὐτῇ κατὰ τὴν διαστολὴν τῶν χειλέων αὐτῆσ, οὓσ ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆσ ψυχῆσ αὐτῆσ, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 30:7)
  • καὶ ἔλαβον αὐτὸν ζῶντα καὶ ἔστησαν αὐτοῖσ διδόναι αὐτόν τε καὶ τοὺσ βασιλεύοντασ μετ̓ αὐτὸν φόρον μέγαν καὶ διδόναι ὅμηρα καὶ διαστολὴν (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:7)
  • κίκερα γὰρ οἱ Λατῖνοι τόν ἐρέβινθον καλοῦσι, κἀκεῖνοσ ἐν τῷ πέρατι τῆσ ῥινὸσ διαστολὴν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἀμβλεῖαν εἶχεν ὥσπερ ἐρεβίνθου διαφυήν, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἐκτήσατο τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 1 2:2)
  • ἀλλ’ αὕτη γ’ ἐπὶ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν κοίλην αἵματοσ ἀπωλώλει τελέωσ, οὐ τῷ μήκει μόνον τῆσ ἀποστάσεωσ ἐκλυθεῖσα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ τὴν καρδίαν ὑπερκειμένην ἐξαρπάζειν αὐτῆσ σφοδρῶσ καθ’ ἑκάστην διαστολὴν οὐκ ὀλίγον αἷμα. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1635)

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

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