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ἐξάκεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξάκεσις ἐξάκεσεως

Structure: ἐξακεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)cake/omai

Sense

  1. a thorough cure

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

  • Ὀρφεὺσ μὲν γὰρ τελετάσ θ’ ἡμῖν κατέδειξε φόνων τ’ ἀπέχεσθαι, Μουσαῖοσ δ’ ἐξακέσεισ τε νόσων καὶ χρησμούσ, Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ γῆσ ἐργασίασ, καρπῶν ὡρ́ασ, ἀρότουσ· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antepirrheme23)

Synonyms

  1. a thorough cure

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

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