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φοίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοίτησις

Structure: φοιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a constant going, a going to school

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

  • τῶν ἐξόδων γὰρ τῶν γυναικείων καὶ τιμῶν καὶ τῶν εἰσ τοὺσ γάμουσ καὶ γενέθλια τῶν παίδων φοιτήσεων μὴ μετεχέτω, ἐὰν ἀκοσμοῦσα ὡσαύτωσ ἀναγραφῇ καὶ μὴ ἕλῃ τὴν δίκην. (Plato, Laws, book 6 229:3)
  • ὅσα τισ ἐλεύθεροσ ἀπειθεῖ τῇ πόλει, μήτ’ οὖν πληγῶν ἄξια μηδ’ αὖ δεσμῶν μηδὲ θανάτου, περὶ δὲ χορείασ τινῶν φοιτήσεων ἢ πομπεύσεων ἢ τοιούτων τινῶν ἄλλων κοινῶν κοσμήσεων ἢ λῃτουργιῶν, ὁπόσα περὶ θυσίασ εἰρηνικῆσ ἢ πολεμικῶν εἰσφορῶν εἵνεκα, πάντων τῶν τοιούτων τὴν πρώτην ἀνάγκην ἰατὴν εἶναι τῆσ ζημίασ, τοῖσ δὲ μὴ πειθομένοισ ἐνεχυρασίαν τούτοισ οἷσ ἂν πόλισ ἅμα καὶ νόμοσ εἰσπράττειν προστάττῃ, τῶν δὲ ἀπειθούντων ταῖσ ἐνεχυρασίαισ πρᾶσιν τῶν ἐνεχύρων εἶναι, τὸ δὲ νόμισμα γίγνεσθαι τῇ πόλει· (Plato, Laws, book 12 56:1)
  • παιδείασ μὲν βούλεται λέγειν ὁ νόμοσ γυμνασίων καὶ διδασκαλείων ἐπιμελητὰσ κόσμου καὶ παιδεύσεωσ ἅμα καὶ τῆσ περὶ ταῦτα ἐπιμελείασ τῶν φοιτήσεών τε πέρι καὶ οἰκήσεων ἀρρένων καὶ θηλειῶν κορῶν, ἀγωνίασ δέ, ἔν τε τοῖσ γυμνικοῖσ καὶ περὶ τὴν μουσικὴν ἀθλοθέτασ ἀθληταῖσ, διττοὺσ αὖ τούτουσ, περὶ μουσικὴν μὲν ἑτέρουσ, περὶ ἀγωνίαν δ’ ἄλλουσ. (Plato, Laws, book 6 93:2)

Synonyms

  1. a constant going

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

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