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ἔγκρισις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: enkrisis

Principal Part: ἔγκρισις ἔγκρισεως

Structure: ἐγκρισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐγκρί_νω

Sense

  1. admission to the contest

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 τῶν μὲν ἀθλητῶν ἐγκρίσεις ποιοῦμεν, ὅπως αὐτῶν ὅστις φαῦλος ἑαυτὸν καταισχύνας ἀπίῃ καὶ δίκην ἅμα δοὺς ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, τοὺς δὲ τῶν σπουδαιοτάτων ἡγεμόνας καὶ διδασκάλους ἀπὸ πάντων μὲν ἐργαστηρίων, πάντων δὲ τῶν σπουδαιοτάτων οὑτωσὶ φαύλως ἐγκρινοῦμεν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. admission to the contest

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

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