Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κλῇσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλῇσις κλῇσεως

Structure: κλῃσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: klh/|w

Sense

  1. a shutting up, closing

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

  • "πλεονάζων ἐν ταῖσ προσφωνήσεσι πρὸσ σὲ περὶ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν κλήσεων ἀγωνιῶ μή ποτε εἰσ πληθώραν ἐμπεσὼν μεμψιμοιρήσῃσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 453)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν πολλὰ τῶν ἀγωνισμάτων ἐπὶ τῶν πρώτων κλήσεων τέλοσ ἐλάμβανεν, ὥστε μηδὲν ἔτι δεῖν τῶν ἐσχάτων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 59 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shutting up

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION