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ἡμέρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμέρωσις ἡμέρωσεως

Structure: ἡμερωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a taming: civilising

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο αὐτῷ δηλοῦν τῆσ γῆσ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:2)
  • μᾶλλον οὖν πρέπειν τῷ γεγονότι κατὰ τοὺσ ἀρχαίουσ χρόνουσ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν τῆσ χώρασ, κατισχυομένων ἔτι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν θηρίων, καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὴν ὑπερκειμένην χώραν μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ἔρημον οὖσαν καὶ θηριώδη. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 24 6:1)
  • οὐ παραλειπτέον δ’ ἡμῖν οὐδὲ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆσ περὶ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν φιλοτιμίασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 39 5:1)
  • Ἀθηνᾷ δὲ προσάπτουσι τήν τε τῶν ἐλαιῶν ἡμέρωσιν καὶ φυτείαν παραδοῦναι τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ τὴν τοῦ καρποῦ τούτου κατεργασίαν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 73 7:1)
  • Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἡμῖν εἰρήσθω χάριν τοῦ μὴ διὰ μίαν πόλιν τὸ κοινὸν ἦθοσ διαβάλλεσθαι τῶν Ἀρκάδων, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τοῦ μὴ νομίσαντασ ἐνίουσ τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Ἀρκαδίαν περιουσίασ χάριν τὰ κατὰ μουσικὴν ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἀσκεῖσθαι παρ’ αὑτοῖσ ὀλιγωρεῖν ἐγχειρῆσαι τούτου τοῦ μέρουσ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ Κυναιθέων ἕνεκεν, ἵν’ ἄν ποτ’ αὐτοῖσ ὁ θεὸσ εὖ δῷ, τραπέντεσ πρὸσ παιδείαν ἡμερῶσιν αὑτούσ, καὶ μάλιστα ταύτησ πρὸσ μουσικήν· (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 21 10:1)

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

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