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ἔγκρισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκρισις ἔγκρισεως

Structure: ἐγκρισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)gkri/_nw

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

  • "πολλῶν λεγόντων ‐ εἰ δὲ ἀληθέσ, ὑμεῖσ οἱ ἄνδρεσ ἴστε ‐ μηδ’ Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐξεῖναι τοῖσ νικῶσι μείζουσ τῶν σωμάτων ἀνεστάναι τοὺσ ἀνδριάντασ, ἀλλὰ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τοὺσ Ἑλλανοδίκασ ὅπωσ μηδὲ εἷσ ὑπερβάληται τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ τὴν ἐξέτασιν τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἀκριβεστέραν γίγνεσθαι τῆσ τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἐγκρίσεωσ. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 11:2)
  • 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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