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κλίσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλίσις κλίσεως

Structure: κλισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kli/nw

Sense

  1. bending, inclination
  2. a lying down; a place for lying down
  3. (of soldiers) turning
  4. (grammar) inflection (of nouns and verbs)
  5. (grammar) augment

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

  • ὃ μέγιστον ἦν ἐν τοῖσ τακτικοῖσ, ἐλαφροὺσ καὶ ὀξεῖσ πρόσ τε τὰσ κατ’ οὐλαμὸν ἐπιστροφὰσ καὶ περισπασμοὺσ καὶ τὰσ καθ’ ἵππον ἐπιστροφὰσ καὶ κλίσεισ ἀπειργάσατο, καὶ συνείθισεν ὡσ ἑνὶ σώματι κινουμένῳ καθ’ ὁρμὴν ἑκούσιον ἐοικέναι τὴν ὅλου τοῦ συστήματοσ ἐν ταῖσ μεταβολαῖσ εὐχέρειαν. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 7 5:1)
  • πάλαι γὰρ ἀκούει κακῶσ ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ διὰ τὸν ξένον εἰ γὰρ διετάττετο ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ, ὥσπερ ἐκέλευον ἐγώ, τὰσ κλίσεισ, οὐκ ἂν εὐθύνασ ὑπείχομεν ἀταξίασ ἀνδρὶ δεινῷ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 6:2)
  • ὧν καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἡμῖν βιβλίον εἶχε μεμιγμένα δείγματα, τοῦ μὲν προτέρου γένουσ τὸ περὶ τοῦ φιλοσοφεῖν παρὰ πότον καὶ περὶ τοῦ διανέμειν αὐτὸν ἢ τοῖσ δειπνοῦσιν ἐφιέναι τὰσ κλίσεισ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, chapter 0 5:1)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ τούτοισ διειλημμένων τῶν σατραπειῶν αἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρκτον, αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τὴν μεσημβρίαν ἔχουσι τὰσ κλίσεισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 5 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lying down

  2. turning

  3. inflection

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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