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ἕλκωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕλκωσις ἕλκωσεως

Structure: ἑλκωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(lko/w

Sense

  1. ulceration

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἕλκωσις ἑλκώσει ἑλκώσεις
Genitive ἑλκώσεως ἑλκώσοιν ἑλκώσεων
Dative ἑλκώσει ἑλκώσοιν ἑλκώσεσιν*
Accusative έ̔λκωσιν ἑλκώσει ἑλκώσεις
Vocative έ̔λκωσι ἑλκώσει ἑλκώσεις

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

  • ἐκ δὲ τούτου προβάτων μὲν καὶ ὑποζυγίων καὶ βοῶν ἐπίλειψισ παντελὴσ ἐγέ‐ νετο, εἰσ δὲ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ νόσοι κατέσκηψαν πολλαὶ μὲν καὶ ἄλλαι, μάλιστα δὲ ἡ ψωρώδησ καλουμένη, δεινὰσ ὀδύνασ παρέχουσα τοῖσ χρωσὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ὀδα‐ ξησμοὺσ καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἑλκώσεισ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀγριαινο‐ μένη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 6 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. ulceration

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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