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κατάζευξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάζευξις κατάζευξεως

Structure: καταζευξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from katazeu/gnu_mi

Sense

  1. a yoking together, encamping

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

  • "γάμον καὶ σύνοδον ἀνδρὸσ καὶ γυναικόσ, ἧσ οὐ γέγονεν οὐδ’ ἔστιν ἱερωτέρα κατάζευξισ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 4 2:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοὺσ μαχομένουσ ἀνεκαλεῖτο καὶ κατάζευξιν ἐσήμαινεν, ὡσ σκιᾶσ γοῦν μεταλάβοιεν οἱ στρατιῶται. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 47 4:3)
  • διὸ καὶ καταστῆσαι τὸ πλῆθοσ εἰσ τάξιν ἐκ τῆσ πλάνησ καὶ τοῦ διασπασμοῦ βουλόμενοσ ἐκέλευσε σημαίνειν κατάζευξιν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 48 5:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ συνεχώρησεν ἄκων καὶ πρόσταγμα καταζεύξεωσ ἔδωκεν, ἀρχομένων αὐτῶν τὸν χάρακα βάλλειν καὶ τάφρον ὀρύσσειν πρὸ τῆσ στρατοπεδείασ, ἐπήλαυνε σοβαρῶσ ὁ Μάριοσ προϊππεύων ὡσ ἀτάκτουσ καὶ τεθορυβημένουσ διασκεδάσων. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 28 6:1)
  • δεδοικυῖα δὲ μὴ πρὸσ τῶν ταύρων διαφθαρῇ, κρύφα τοῦ πατρὸσ συνεργήσειν αὐτῷ πρὸσ τὴν κατάζευξιν τῶν ταύρων ἐπηγγείλατο καὶ τὸ δέρασ ἐγχειριεῖν, ἐὰν ὀμόσῃ αὐτὴν ἕξειν γυναῖκα καὶ εἰσ Ἑλλάδα σύμπλουν ἀγάγηται. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 23:12)

Synonyms

  1. a yoking together

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

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