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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

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

  • περιετμήθη γὰρ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ἑλκώσεωσ αὐτῷ περὶ τὸ αἰδοῖον γενομένησ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 91:2)

Synonyms

  1. ulceration

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

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