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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

  • συνασπισμὸσ δὲ ἐπὰν ἐσ τοσόνδε πυκνώσῃσ τὴν φάλαγγα, ὥστε διὰ τὴν συνέχειαν μηδὲ κλίσιν τὴν ἐφ̓ ἑκάτερα ἔτ̓ ἐγχωρεῖν τὴν τάξιν. (Arrian, chapter 11 5:1)
  • κἀν Φιλοκτήτῃ δὲ κατὰ γενικὴν κλίσιν φαβῶν εἴρηκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:4)
  • οἱ μέντοι Πάρθοι τὴν εἰσ γόνυ κλίσιν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀπαγόρευσιν ἡγούμενοι καὶ κάματον εἶναι, τὰ μὲν τόξα κατέθεντο, τοὺσ δὲ κοντοὺσ διαλαβόντεσ ἐγγὺσ προσέμιξαν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 45 3:1)
  • ἐσχατιὴν δὲ Λίβυσσαν ἐπιστείβων Νασαμώνων ἔρχεο καὶ παρὰ Σύρτιν, ὅπῃ νοτίῃσι θυέλλαισ ἐσ κλίσιν ἀντίπρωρον ἀνακλασθεῖσα Βορῆοσ, καὶ ψαφαρὴν ἄμπωτιν ὕπερ, ῥηγμῖνι ἁλίπλῳ ἀνδράσι δῖα θάλασσα πόρον χερσαῖον ἀνοίγει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 4, chapter 3 17:1)
  • "ἡ δὲ μέταυλοσ αὕτη κλίσιν ἐπ’ ἀμφότερα λαμβάνουσα, φθεγγομένων μέν, ἐπιπίπτει τῷ στομάχῳ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 3:9)

Synonyms

  1. a lying down

  2. turning

  3. inflection

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