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ἕσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: hesis

Principal Part: ἕσις ἕσεως

Structure: ἑσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἵημι

Sense

  1. an impulse, tendency
  2. a sitting.

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

  • εἰ δὲ βούλει, αὐτὸ ἡ "νόησις" τοῦ νέου ἐστὶν ἕσις, τὸ δὲ νέα εἶναι τὰ ὄντα σημαίνει γιγνόμενα ἀεὶ εἶναι: (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 170:9)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ δῆλον ὅτι ἕσις βούλεται εἶναι: (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 260:2)
  • εἰ οὖν τις τὸ παλαιὸν αὐτῆς εὑρ´οι ὄνομα εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν φωνὴν συμβαῖνον, "ἕσις" ἂν ὀρθῶς καλοῖτο: (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 260:5)

Synonyms

  1. a sitting

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

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