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ἐγχείρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχείρησις ἐγχείρησεως

Structure: ἐγχειρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)gxeire/w

Sense

  1. a taking in hand, undertaking

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐγχείρησις ἐγχειρήσει ἐγχειρήσεις
Genitive ἐγχειρήσεως ἐγχειρήσοιν ἐγχειρήσεων
Dative ἐγχειρήσει ἐγχειρήσοιν ἐγχειρήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐγχείρησιν ἐγχειρήσει ἐγχειρήσεις
Vocative ἐγχείρησι ἐγχειρήσει ἐγχειρήσεις

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῖσ πρὸσ ἐκείνουσ λόγοισ συνεχήσ ἐστιν ἡ ἐγχείρησισ τῆσ ἡμετέρασ ὑποσχέσεωσ, λαβόντεσ ἀρχὴν ἑτέραν λέγωμεν, ὅτι δεῖ τὸν χωρογραφεῖν ἐπιχειροῦντα πολλὰ τῶν φυσικῶσ τε καὶ μαθηματικῶσ λεγομένων ὑποθέσθαι, καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἐκείνων ὑπόνοιάν τε καὶ πίστιν τὰ ἑξῆσ πραγματεύεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a taking in hand

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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