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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

  • καὶ οὕτω διὰ πασῶν τῶν δεκαδαρχιῶν ἡ κλῆσισ γίγνεται. (Arrian, chapter 42 1:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ δείπνοισ ἡ μὲν κλῆσισ ἦν ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ δημοτικὴ καὶ λαώδησ, ἡ δ’ εὐτέλεια τὴν καθαριότητα καὶ τὴν φιλοφροσύνην ἡδίονα τοῦ πολυτελοῦσ εἶχε. (Plutarch, chapter 3 1:3)
  • ἡ δὲ κλῆσισ αὐτῆσ καὶ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 957)
  • ἀλλὰ τοῦ γε τὸν πόλεμον εἰσ σπονδὰσ τελευτῆσαι μαρτύριόν ἐστιν ἥ τε τοῦ τόπου κλῆσισ τοῦ παρὰ τὸ Θησεῖον, ὅνπερ Ὁρκωμόσιον καλοῦσιν, ἥ τε γινομένη πάλαι θυσία ταῖσ Ἀμαζόσι πρὸ τῶν Θησείων. (Plutarch, chapter 27 5:2)
  • ὃ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῷ ξύμπαντι ἀποπληξίη ἐστὶ ἰσχυρὴ, τόδε ἐν τῷ σκέλεϊ παραπληγίην φράζει· κύστιοσ δὲ οὔρων σχέσιοσ ἢ ἀκρασίησ, πάρεσισ τὸ κύριον· βλεφάρων δὲ καὶ μήλων καὶ μυῶν τῶν ἐν γνάθοισ, καὶ γένυοσ ἐπὶ θάτερα παραγωγὴ, ἢν ἐπὶ σπασμῷ διαστρέφηται, κυνικὸσ σπασμὸσ ἡ κλῆσισ· ἔκλυσιν δὲ γουνάτων καὶ αἰσθήσιοσ πρόσκαιρον νάρκην καὶ ἀψυχίην καὶ κατάπτωσιν, λιποθυμίην καλέομεν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 99)

Synonyms

  1. a shutting up

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

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