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ἔναυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔναυσις ἔναυσιος

Structure: ἐναυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a kindling

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

  • οἱ μὲν γάρ, ἐφ’ οἷσ ἡ πόλισ μέγα φρονεῖ δικαίωσ, τό τε σπέρμα τῆσ τροφῆσ εἰσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐξέδωκαν ὑδάτων τε πηγαίων καὶ πυρὸσ ἔναυσιν χρῄζουσιν ἀνθρώποισ ἐδίδαξαν,ὁ δὲ τὴν μὲν οἰκίαν τοῖσ πολίταισ πρυτανεῖον ἀποδείξασ κοινόν, ἐν δὲ τῇ χώρᾳ καρπῶν ἑτοίμων ἀπαρχὰσ καὶ ὅσα ὡρ͂αι καλὰ φέρουσι χρῆσθαι καὶ λαμβάνειν ἅπαντα τοῖσ ξένοισ παρέχων, τρόπον τινὰ τὴν ἐπὶ Κρόνου μυθολογουμένην κοινωνίαν εἰσ τὸν βίον αὖθισ κατῆγεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a kindling

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

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