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ἐξωμοσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξωμοσία

Structure: ἐξωμοσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)co/mnumi

Sense

  1. denial on oath that one knows anything
  2. a declining an office on oath

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐξωμοσία ἐξωμοσίᾱ ἐξωμοσίαι
Genitive ἐξωμοσίᾱς ἐξωμοσίαιν ἐξωμοσιῶν
Dative ἐξωμοσίᾱͅ ἐξωμοσίαιν ἐξωμοσίαις
Accusative ἐξωμοσίᾱν ἐξωμοσίᾱ ἐξωμοσίᾱς
Vocative ἐξωμοσίᾱ ἐξωμοσίᾱ ἐξωμοσίαι

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

  • ἐξωμοσία δ’ οὐκ ἔστιν; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 2:13)
  • Ἐξωμοσία οὐκ ἄδηλον ἦν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ὅτι τοῦτ’ ἔμελλον ποιήσειν, προθύμωσ ἐξομεῖσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 94:2)

Synonyms

  1. a declining an office on oath

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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