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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

  • ἐκεῖνο μόνον ἄσκεπτον, ἤν σ’ οἱ τοξόται ἕλκωσιν, ὅ τι δράσεισ ποτ’. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 7:17)
  • ἐὰν λαβόντεσ δ’ ἐσ τὸ δωμάτιον βίᾳ ἕλκωσιν ἡμᾶσ; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 4:24)
  • Ἢν αἷμα ἢ πῦον οὐρέῃ, τῶν νεφρῶν ἢ τῆσ κύστιοσ ἕλκωσιν σημαίνει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 83.73)
  • Ἢν αἷμα καὶ πῦον οὐρέῃ καὶ λεπίδασ, καὶ ὀσμὴ βαρέη ᾖ, τῆσ κύστιοσ ἕλκωσιν σημαίνει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 83.79)
  • Ἢν δὲ ὑποπτεύῃσ τῶν ὀστέων τι δεῖσθαί τινοσ διορθώσιοσ, ἤ τινα ἕλκωσιν ὀῤῬωδέῃσ, ἐν τῷ μεσηγὺ χρόνῳ χρὴ λύσαντα καὶ εὐθετισάμενον μετεπιδῆσαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 16.17)

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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