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καῦσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καῦσις καῦσεως

Structure: καυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. a burning, cautery

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καῦσις καύσει καύσεις
Genitive καύσεως καύσοιν καύσεων
Dative καύσει καύσοιν καύσεσιν*
Accusative καῦσιν καύσει καύσεις
Vocative καῦσι καύσει καύσεις

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

  • τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ ὄντασ ἔλεγε μηδέποτε χειροτονεῖν εἰρήνην ἄνευ μελάνων ἱματίων, οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖσ οὐδέποτε μεμνήμεθα λιτῆσ διαίτησ καὶ σώφρονοσ ἄνευ καύσεων καὶ καταπλασμάτων ἔν τε τούτοισ γιγνόμενοι πιέζομεν σφόδρα τὰσ ἁμαρτίασ, ἀντερειδόμενοι τῇ μνήμῃ καὶ καθάπερ οἱ πολλοὶ νῦν μὲν ἀέρασ νῦν δὲ χώρασ; (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 9 1:1)
  • Φασὶ δὲ καὶ σηπτικῶν φαρμάκων καὶ τομῶν καὶ καύσεων ἐπί τινοσ ἕλκουσ αὐτῷ προσενεχθέντων, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ τὰσ ὀφρῦσ συναγαγεῖν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 7:1)
  • ὦ ἄνθρωποι οἱ λέγοντεσ αὖ ἀγαθὰ ἀνιαρὰ εἶναι, ἆρα οὐ τὰ τοιάδε λέγετε, οἱο͂ν τά τε γυμνάσια καὶ τὰσ στρατείασ καὶ τὰσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θεραπείασ τὰσ διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομῶν καὶ φαρμακειῶν καὶ λιμοκτονιῶν γιγνομένασ, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀγαθὰ μέν ἐστιν, ἀνιαρὰ δέ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 372:4)

Similar forms

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

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