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ἐξαίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαίτησις ἐξαίτησεως

Structure: ἐξαιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)caite/w

Sense

  1. a demanding, for punishment
  2. intercession

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐξαίτησις ἐξαιτήσει ἐξαιτήσεις
Genitive ἐξαιτήσεως ἐξαιτήσοιν ἐξαιτήσεων
Dative ἐξαιτήσει ἐξαιτήσοιν ἐξαιτήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐξαίτησιν ἐξαιτήσει ἐξαιτήσεις
Vocative ἐξαίτησι ἐξαιτήσει ἐξαιτήσεις

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

  • οὔκουν δεινὸν τὸν μὲν καὶ ἐκ γένουσ ὄντα τοῦ Εὐμολπιδῶν καὶ προγόνων καλῶν κἀγαθῶν καὶ πολίτην τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὅτι ἐδόκει τι παραβῆναι τῶν νομίμων, δοῦναι δίκην καὶ οὔθ’ ἡ τῶν συγγενῶν οὔθ’ ἡ τῶν φίλων ἐξαίτησισ ὠφέλησεν αὐτόν, οὔθ’ αἱ λῃτουργίαι ἃσ ἐλῃτούργησε τῇ πόλει αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ πρόγονοι αὐτοῦ, οὔτε τὸ ἱεροφάντην εἶναι, ἀλλ’ ἐκολάσατε δόξαντα ἀδικεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 168:1)
  • ἀποκριναμένου δέ μοι τούτου ὅτι ἐλεύθεροσ εἰή, τῆσ μὲν ἐξαιτήσεωσ ἐπέσχον, μαρτυρίαν δ’ αὐτὸν ἠξίουν ἐμβαλέσθαι τοῦ Αἰσχρίωνοσ ὡσ ἐλευθέρου ὄντοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 67:2)

Synonyms

  1. intercession

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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