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καχεξία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καχεξία

Structure: καχεξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e(/cis

Sense

  1. a bad habit of body

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καχεξία καχεξίᾱ καχεξίαι
Genitive καχεξίᾱς καχεξίαιν καχεξιῶν
Dative καχεξίᾱͅ καχεξίαιν καχεξίαις
Accusative καχεξίᾱν καχεξίᾱ καχεξίᾱς
Vocative καχεξίᾱ καχεξίᾱ καχεξίαι

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

  • νῦν δὲ καὶ καχεξία τισ ὑποδέδυκε τοὺσ ὄχλουσ,, αἱ κρίσεισ θ’ ἡμῶν νοσοῦσι, καὶ τὸ πρὸσ χάριν πολύ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 65 3:3)
  • καχεξία φανερὰ γίνεται, καὶ ἐκ τῶν εὐεκτικῶν ἡ εὐεξία καὶ ἐκ ταύτησ τὰ εὐεκτικά. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 6:1)
  • Τοῖσι δὲ πρεσβύτῃσι, δύσπνοιαι, κατάῤῬοοι βηχώδεεσ, στραγγουρίαι, δυσουρίαι, ἄρθρων πόνοι, νεφρίτιδεσ, ἴλιγγοι, ἀποπληξίαι, καχεξίαι, ξυσμοὶ τοῦ σώματοσ ὅλου, ἀγρυπνίαι, κοιλίησ καὶ ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ Ῥινῶν ὑγρότητεσ, ἀμβλυωπίαι, γλαυκώσιεσ, βαρυηκοί̈αι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 31.31)
  • ὡσ ἂν γὰρ ὑπαίθρου τῆσ παραχειμασίασ γεγενημένησ ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ Γαλατίαν τόποισ, ὑπό τε τοῦ ψύχουσ καὶ τῆσ ἀνηλειψίασ, ἔτι δὲ τῆσ μετὰ ταῦτα διὰ τῶν ἑλῶν πορείασ καὶ ταλαιπωρίασ ἐπεγεγόνει σχεδὸν ἅπασι τοῖσ ἵπποισ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν ὁ λεγόμενοσ λιμόψωροσ καὶ τοιαύτη καχεξία. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 87 2:1)
  • εἰ δ’, ὥσ φασιν, οὐ κεραυνοῦται, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἄν τισ ἀναθείη τῇ πικρότητι καὶ καχεξίᾳ τοῦ στελέχουσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bad habit of body

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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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