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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

  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ πῦρ εἰσιν οἱ τοῦ παντὸσ ἀρχὴν ἀποφαινόμενοι, καὶ οἱο͂ν σπέρμα τοῦτ’ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ τε πάντα ποιεῖν καὶ εἰσ ἑαυτὸ ἐκλαμβάνειν κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν. (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 1 4:3)
  • "ὅπερ τρία πρὸσ ἕν, τοῦτο τὴν διακόσμησιν οἰόμενοι χρόνῳ πρὸσ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν εἶναι. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 913)
  • καὶ ὁ λόγοσ ὅλωσ ᾐνίχθαι δοκεῖ τῷ Ἡσιόδῳ πρὸσ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν, ὁπηνίκα συνεκλείπειν τοῖσ ὑγροῖσ εἰκόσ ἐστι τὰσ Νύμφασ, αἵ τ’ ἄλσεα καλὰ νέμονται καὶ πηγὰσ ποταμῶν καὶ πίσεα ποιήεντα. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 11 2:6)
  • "πολλῶν καὶ ὁρῶ τὴν Στωικὴν ἐκπύρωσιν ὥσπερ τὰ Ἡρακλείτου καὶ Ὀρφέωσ ἐπινεμομένην ἔπη οὕτω καὶ τὰ Ἡσιόδου καὶ συνεξάπτουσαν ἀλλ’ οὔτε τοῦ κόσμου τὴν φθορὰν ἀνέχομαι λεγομένην, τὰ τ’ ἀμήχανα καὶ ὧν ὑπόμνησισ τῶν φωνῶν μάλιστα περὶ τὴν κορώνην καὶ τὴν ἔλαφον ἐκδύεσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὑπερβάλλοντασ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 121)
  • ἀλλὰ τοῦ τε κόσμου πάλιν τὸ πῦρ ὃ σπέρμα λέγουσιν εἶναι καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν εἰσ σπέρμα μετέβαλε τὸν κόσμον ἐκ βραχυτέρου σώματοσ καὶ ὄγκου, φύσιν ἔχοντα πολλὴν καὶ τοῦ κενοῦ προσεπιλαμβάνοντα χώραν ἄπλετον ἐπινεμομένην τῇ αὐξήσει, γεννωμένου δ’ αὖθισ ὑποχωρεῖν τὸ μέγεθοσ καὶ συνολισθάνειν, δυομένησ καὶ συναγομένησ περὶ τὴν γένεσιν εἰσ ἑαυτὴν τῆσ ὕλησ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 35 4:2)

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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