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ἐξαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαίρεσις ἐξαίρεσεως

Structure: ἐξαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)caire/w

Sense

  1. a taking out, a way of taking out

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐξαίρεσις ἐξαιρέσει ἐξαιρέσεις
Genitive ἐξαιρέσεως ἐξαίρουιν ἐξαιρέσεων
Dative ἐξαιρέσει ἐξαίρουιν ἐξαιρέσεσιν*
Accusative ἐξαίρεσιν ἐξαιρέσει ἐξαιρέσεις
Vocative ἐξαίρεσι ἐξαιρέσει ἐξαιρέσεις

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

  • ἔπειτα ἀπορρεύσαντοσ τοῦ πολλοῦ αἵματοσ πάντα τὰ ἐντοσθίδια μετὰ τῆσ ἐξαιρέσεωσ εἴρηται γὰρ καὶ ἐξαίρεσισ, ὦ στωμυλῆθραι δαιταλεῖσ διακλύσασ ἐπιμελῶσ οἴνῳ πολλάκισ ἐκρέμασα ἐκ ποδῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 26 6:1)
  • ἡ δὲ δὴ ἐξαίρεσισ τῶν ἱρῶν καὶ ἡ καῦσισ ἄλλη περὶ ἄλλο ἱρόν σφι κατέστηκε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 40 2:1)
  • Ἔστω δὲ καὶ δεκάτη τῶν καρπῶν ἐξαίρεσισ ὑμῖν χωρὶσ ἧσ διετάξατε τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι καὶ Λευίταισ δεδόσθαι, ἣ πιπρασκέσθω μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν πατρίδων, εἰσ δὲ τὰσ εὐωχίασ ὑπηρετείτω καὶ τὰσ θυσίασ τὰσ ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ πόλει· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 260:1)

Synonyms

  1. a taking out

Similar forms

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

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