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καταβόησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταβόησις καταβόησεως

Structure: καταβοησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a crying out against

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

  • οὐχὶ δάκρυα χήρασ ἐπὶ σιαγόνα καταβαίνει καὶ ἡ καταβόησισ ἐπὶ τῷ καταγαγόντι αὐτά̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 35:15)
  • "ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ πολλὴ γέγονε κἀκείνου καταβόησισ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων φιλοσόφων. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 213)

Synonyms

  1. a crying out against

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

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