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δύνασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύνασις δύνασεως

Structure: δυνασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for du/namis, Soph., Eur.

Sense

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

  • οἶδα καὶ πλούτου μεγάλαν δύνασιν, ἃ καὶ τὸν ἀχρεῖον τί[θησ]ι χρηστόν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 10 6:1)
  • ὁ χρυσὸσ ἅ τ’ εὐτυχία φρενῶν βροτοὺσ ἐξάγεται, δύνασιν ἄδικον ἐφέλκων. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • δύνασιν ἐκφέρει τίνα; (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 5:18)
  • ποῦ τὸ τᾶσ Αἰδοῦσ ἢ τὸ τᾶσ Ἀρετᾶσ ἔχει σθένειν τι πρόσωπον, ὁπότε τὸ μὲν ἄσεπτον ἔχει δύνασιν, ἁ δ’ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι‐ σθεν θνατοῖσ ἀμελεῖται, Ἀνομία δὲ νόμων κρατεῖ, καὶ <μὴ> κοινὸσ ἀγὼν βροτοῖσ μή τισ θεῶν φθόνοσ ἔλθῃ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, epode3)
  • τεάν, Ζεῦ, δύνασιν τίσ ἀνδρῶν ὑπερβασία κατάσχοι; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)

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

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