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ἐκεχειρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκεχειρία

Structure: ἐκεχειρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw, xei/r

Sense

  1. a holding of hands, a cessation of hostilities, armistice, truce
  2. rest from work, vacation, holiday

Declension

First 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

  • τὸ τήμερον γὰρ ἐκεχειρία ἐπήγγελται· (Lucian, 22:4)
  • ἐν τοιαύταισ δ’ ἀκαταστασίαισ τῆσ πόλεωσ οὔσησ ἐκεχειρία τισ ἐν τῷ διὰ μέσου γενομένη θυσιῶν πατρίων ἕνεκα καὶ πανηγύρεισ ἐπιλαβοῦσαι λαμπραὶ ταῖσ δαπάναισ ἐπέσχον τὴν ἐν τῷ παρόντι τοῦ πλήθουσ διχοστασίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 31 1:1)
  • πλείστη δ’ ἐκεχειρία περὶ τὰσ κλοπάσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 106:3)

Synonyms

  1. rest from work

Related

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

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