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ἐκπύρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκπύρωσις ἐκπύρωσεως

Structure: ἐκπυρωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kpuro/w

Sense

  1. a conflagration

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

  • "διόλου μὲν γὰρ ὢν ὁ κόσμοσ πυρώδησ εὐθὺσ καὶ ψυχή ἐστιν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἡγεμονικόν ὅτε δὲ μεταβαλὼν εἴσ τὸ ὑγρὸν καὶ τὴν ἐναπολειφθεῖσαν ψυχὴν τρόπον τινὰ εἰσ σῶμα καὶ ψυχὴν μετέβαλεν ὥστε συνεστάναι ἐκ τούτων, ἄλλον τινὰ ἔσχε λόγον" ἐνταῦθα δήπου σαφῶσ τῇ μὲν ἐκπυρώσει καὶ τὰ ἄψυχα τοῦ κόσμου φησὶν εἰσ τὸ ἔμψυχον τρέπεσθαι· (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 41 7:1)
  • συστελλόμενον γῆν γίνεσθαι, ἔπειτ’ ἀναχαλωμένην τὴν γῆν ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸσ φύσει ὕδωρ ἀποτελεῖσθαι, ἀναθυμιώμενον δ’ ἀέρα γίνεσθαι πάλιν δὲ τὸν κόσμον καὶ πάντα τὰ σώματα ὑπὸ πυρὸσ ἀναλοῦσθαι ἐν τῇ ἐκπυρώσει. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 32:1)
  • ἐπεὶ εἰ τὸ μόνον εἶναι ἀρκεῖ πρὸσ τὸ ἔρημον εἶναι, λέγε ὅτι καὶ ὁ Ζεὺσ ἐν τῇ ἐκπυρώσει ἔρημόσ ἐστι καὶ κατακλαίει αὐτὸσ ἑαυτοῦ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:1)
  • ταῦτα καὶ λέγουσί τινεσ ὅτι ποιεῖ μόνοσ ἐν τῇ ἐκπυρώσει. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a conflagration

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

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