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ἔγερσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγερσις

Structure: ἐγερσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a waking, awaking

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

  • καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ἐσάλπισαν καὶ ἐβόησαν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ὑμνοῦντεσ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐγέρσει τοῦ οἴκου Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:59)
  • τῇ δὲ δὴ πηδήσει τῆσ καρδίασ ἐν τῇ τῶν δεινῶν προσδοκίᾳ καὶ τῇ τοῦ θυμοῦ ἐγέρσει, προγιγνώσκοντεσ ὅτι διὰ πυρὸσ ἡ τοιαύτη πᾶσα ἔμελλεν οἴδησισ γίγνεσθαι τῶν θυμουμένων, ἐπικουρίαν αὐτῇ μηχανώμενοι τὴν τοῦ πλεύμονοσ ἰδέαν ἐνεφύτευσαν, πρῶτον μὲν μαλακὴν καὶ ἄναιμον, εἶτα σήραγγασ ἐντὸσ ἔχουσαν οἱο͂ν σπόγγου κατατετρημένασ, ἵνα τό τε πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ πῶμα δεχομένη, ψύχουσα, ἀναπνοὴν καὶ ῥᾳστώνην ἐν τῷ καύματι παρέχοι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 344:2)

Synonyms

  1. a waking

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

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