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ἔκλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκλησις ἔκλησεως

Structure: ἐκλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)klaqe/sqai

Sense

  1. a forgetting and forgiving

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔκλησις ἐκλήσει ἐκλήσεις
Genitive ἐκλήσεως ἐκλήσοιν ἐκλήσεων
Dative ἐκλήσει ἐκλήσοιν ἐκλήσεσιν*
Accusative έ̓κλησιν ἐκλήσει ἐκλήσεις
Vocative έ̓κλησι ἐκλήσει ἐκλήσεις

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 δὴ μνηστῆρασ ἐτίσατο δῖοσ Ὀδυσσεύσ, ὁρ́κια πιστὰ ταμόντεσ ὁ μὲν βασιλευέτω αἰεί, ἡμεῖσ δ’ αὖ παίδων τε κασιγνήτων τε φόνοιο ἔκλησιν θέωμεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 53:6)

Synonyms

  1. a forgetting and forgiving

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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