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ἔκθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκθεσις ἔκθεσεως

Structure: ἐκθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)kti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a putting out, exposing

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

  • οὐδὲ ξυνῄδει σοί τισ ἔκθεσιν τέκνου; (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 3:39)
  • "ἐπεπήγει δὲ τοῦ συμποσίου καταντικρὺ καὶ ἑτέρα κλίνη πρὸσ τὴν τῶν κυλίκων καὶ ποτηρίων τῶν τε λοιπῶν τῶν πρὸσ τὴν χρῆσιν ἀνηκόντων κατασκευασμάτων ἔκθεσιν ἃ δὴ πάντα χρυσᾶ τε ἦν καὶ διάλιθα, θαυμαστὰ ταῖσ τέχναισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:90)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἔκθεσιν αὐτὴν εἰ μὲν ἀληθῶσ ἐγένετο καθεύδοντοσ ψέγουσι, καὶ Τυρρηνοὺσ ἱστορίαν τινά φασι διαφυλάττειν ὡσ ὑπνώδουσ φύσει τοῦ Ὀδυσσέωσ γενομένου καὶ δυσεντεύκτου διὰ τοῦτο τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ὄντοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 8 36:2)
  • ἦν δέ τισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἀπὸ τύχησ τῶν τὰ παιδάρια ῥῖψαι λαβόντων καὶ γεγονότων περὶ τὴν ἔκθεσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 8 2:2)
  • ὁ δὲ περιχαρὴσ γενόμενοσ ἔρχεται σπουδῇ πρὸσ Νεμέτορα καὶ περιπλακεὶσ ἀμφοῖν ἀσπάζεται μὲν πρῶτον, ἔπειτα φράζει τὴν ἔκθεσιν σφῶν καὶ τροφὴν καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα παρὰ τοῦ Φαιστύλου ἐπύθετο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 82 3:2)

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

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