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καύχησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καύχησις καύχησεως

Structure: καυχησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kauxa/omai

Sense

  1. reason to boast

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

  • τίσ ἐδοκιμάσθη ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐτελειώθη̣ καὶ ἔσται αὐτῷ εἰσ καύχησιν. τίσ ἐδύνατο παραβῆναι καὶ οὐ παρέβη, καὶ ποιῆσαι κακὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησε̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 31:10)
  • εἶχε γὰρ ἐκεῖνοσ ὠδίνων τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματοσ καύχησιν τὴν σοφιστικήν, καθάπερ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνδραπόδων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 7:6)
  • ἔχω οὖν [τὴν] καύχησιν ἐν Χριστῷ Ιἠσοῦ τὰ πρὸσ τὸν θεόν· (PROS RWMAIOUS, chapter 11 127:1)
  • καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀποθνήσκω, νὴ τὴν ὑμετέραν καύχησιν, ἀδελφοί, ἣν ἔχω ἐν Χριστῷ Ιἠσοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν. (PROS KORINQIOUS A, chapter 8 241:1)

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

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