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καθαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαίρεσις καθαίρεσεως

Structure: καθαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kaqaire/w

Sense

  1. a pulling down, rasing to the ground, destruction

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

  • ἦν δὲ ἰατρὸσ αὐτῇ συνήθησ Ὄλυμποσ, ᾧ φράσασα τἀληθὲσ ἐχρῆτο συμβούλῳ καὶ συνεργῷ τῆσ καθαιρέσεωσ, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ὁ Ὄλυμποσ εἴρηκεν ἱστορίαν τινὰ τῶν πραγμάτων τούτων ἐκδεδωκώσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 82 2:1)
  • λέγων δοκῶ προάγειν ἐμαυτὸν εἰσ ἀπέχθειαν̓, ἔστι δ̓ οὐχ ὅμοιον ὑπὲρ ἀναστάσεωσ εἰκόνοσ βουλεύεσθαι καὶ καθαιρέσεωσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 51:1)
  • περὶ δὲ τῶν τειχῶν τῆσ καθαιρέσεωσ οὐδεὶσ ἐβούλετο συμβουλεύειν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 19:1)
  • Λακεδαιμονίοισ μὲν δὴ καὶ Ἀθηναίοισ καὶ τοῖσ συμμάχοισ οὕτω μετὰ τὸν ὕστερον πόλεμον τῆσ καθαιρέσεωσ τῶν Ἀθήνησι τειχῶν αὕτη πρώτη εἰρήνη ἐγένετο. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 45:2)
  • ἔτι δ’ οἱ μὲν οὐδὲν ἀποχρῶν ἡγήσαντο, ἀλλ’ ἄχρι τῆσ τῶν τειχῶν ἦλθον καθαιρέσεωσ, ἡ πόλισ δ’ ἅπαντασ Πελοποννησίουσ κατὰ τοὺσ ἄνω χρόνουσ νενικηκυῖα, ὡσ ἐκομίσατο τὴν Εὔβοιαν, οὐ προῆλθε περαιτέρω, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἃ τῷ πολέμῳ προειλήφει, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀπέδωκεν ἑκοῦσα, Μέγαρα, Νίσαιαν, Τροιζῆνα, Ἀχαί̈αν, Πηγάσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 79:11)

Synonyms

  1. a pulling down

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

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