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εἰκασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκασμός

Etym.: ei)ka/zw

Sense

  1. a conjecturing

Examples

  • "εἰ πόλεωσ ἀναίρεσισ, ἀπόλωλεν ὅπου δ’ οὐ μόνον λέγεται τὸ γενησόμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πῶσ καὶ πότε καὶ μετὰ τί καὶ μετά τίνοσ, οὐκ ἔστιν εἰκασμὸσ τῶν τάχα γενησομένων ἀλλὰ τῶν πάντωσ ἐσομένων προδήλωσισ. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 113)

Synonyms

  1. a conjecturing

Related

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

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