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κατάσπεισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάσπεισις κατάσπεισεως

Structure: κατασπεισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from kataspe/ndw

Sense

  1. self-devotion

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

  • "αἱ δὲ τῶν ἱερείων κατασπείσεισ τί βούλονται, καὶ τὸ μὴ θεμιστεύειν, ἐὰν μὴ τὸ ἱερεῖον ὅλον ἐξ ἄκρων σφυρῶν ὑπότρομον γένηται καὶ κραδανθῇ κατασπενδόμενον; (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 4610)
  • "θεοπρόπων γὰρ ἀπὸ ξένησ παραγενομένων, λέγεται τὰσ πρώτασ κατασπείσεισ ἀκίνητον ὑπομεῖναι καὶ ἀπαθὲσ τὸ ἱερεῖον· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 512)

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

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