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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

  • Ἢν δὲ μετακινέηταί κοτε ἐσ ἕδρην ἡ ὑστέρη, πρὶν ἐσ τέλοσ ἰέναι τὸ πάθοσ, διαδιδράσκουσι τὴν πνίγα· εὖτε κοιλίη ὑποβορβορύζει, ὑγρότησ τῶν γυναικηί̈ων τόπων, ἀναπνοὴ δασυτέρη καὶ σαφεστέρη· ὠκίστη ἐκ τοῦ πάθεοσ ἡ ἔγερσισ, ὅκωσ καὶ ὁ θάνατοσ ὤκιστοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 251)
  • τρίτῃ οἱ μὲν σπασμοὶ ἀπέλιπον, κῶμα δὲ καὶ καταφορὴ καὶ πάλιν ἔγερσισ‧ ἀνήϊσσε, κατέχειν οὐκ ἠδύνατο, παρέλεγε πολλά, πυρετὸσ ὀξύσ, ἐσ νύκτα δὲ ταύτην ἵδρωσε πολλῷ θερμῷ δι’ ὅλου‧ ἄπυροσ, ὕπνωσε, πάντα κατενόει, ἐκρίθη. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 385)

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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