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ἔνθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνθεσις ἔνθεσεως

Structure: ἐνθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)nti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a putting in, a piece put in, a mouthful

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

  • ὦ περὶ πάντ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσί τε πράγμασι δωροδόκοισιν ἐπ’ ἄνθεσιν ἵζων, εἴθε φαύλωσ ὥσπερ ηὑρ͂εσ ἐκβάλοισ τὴν ἔνθεσιν. (Aristotle, Agon, antistrophe 23)
  • τούτων δ’ ὑμεῖσ, ὦ φιλόσοφοι, οὐδὲν ἀσκεῖτε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πάντων χαλεπώτατον λαλεῖτε περὶ ὧν οὐκ οἴδατε καὶ ὡσ κοσμίωσ ἐσθίοντεσ ποιεῖτε τὴν ἔνθεσιν κατὰ τὸν ἥδιστον Ἀντιφάνη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 531)
  • κοσμίωσ ποιῶν τὴν ἔνθεσιν μικρὰν μὲν ἐκ τοῦ πρόσθε, μεστὴν δ’ ἔνδοθεν τὴν χεῖρα, καθάπερ αἱ γυναῖκεσ ‐ κατέφαγε πάμπολλα καὶ παχύτατα,3 ἐξὸν κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τοῦτον ποιητὴν ἐν Βομβυλιῷ λέγοντα δραχμῆσ ὠνήσασθαι τὰσ προσφόρουσ ὑμῖν τροφάσ, σκορόδια, τυρόν, κρόμμυα, κάππαριν ἅπαντα ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν δραχμῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 53 1:1)
  • "ζωμοῦ δ’ ἔρρει παρὰ τὰσ κλίνασ ποταμὸσ κρέα θερμὰ κυλίνδων ὑποτριμματίων δ’ ὀχετοὶ τούτων τοῖσ βουλομένοισι παρῆσαν, ὥστ’ ἀφθονία τὴν ἔνθεσιν ἦν ἄρδονθ’ ἁπαλὴν καταπίνειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:135)
  • "ποταμοὶ μὲν ἀθάρησ καὶ μέλανοσ ζωμοῦ πλέῳ διὰ τῶν στενωπῶν τονθολνγοῦντεσ ἔρρεον αὐταῖσι μυστίλαισι καὶ ναστῶν τρύφη, ὥστ’ εὐμαρῆ γε καὐτομάτην τὴν ἔνθεσιν χωρεῖν λιπαρὰν κατὰ τοῦ λάρυγγοσ τοῖσ νεκροῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:144)

Synonyms

  1. a putting in

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

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