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κοίμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοίμησις κοίμησεως

Structure: κοιμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lying down to sleep

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

  • βουλόμενοσ διαπράξασθαι πλὴν τοῦτο, φιλοσοφίασ τὰ μέγιστα καρποῖτ’ ἂν ὀνείδη ‐ εἰ γὰρ ἢ χρήματα βουλόμενοσ παρά του λαβεῖν ἢ ἀρχὴν ἄρξαι ἤ τινα ἄλλην δύναμιν ἐθέλοι ποιεῖν οἱᾶ́περ οἱ ἐρασταὶ πρὸσ τὰ παιδικά, ἱκετείασ τε καὶ ἀντιβολήσεισ ἐν ταῖσ δεήσεσιν ποιούμενοι, καὶ ὁρ́κουσ ὀμνύντεσ, καὶ κοιμήσεισ ἐπὶ θύραισ, καὶ ἐθέλοντεσ δουλείασ δουλεύειν οἱάσ οὐδ’ ἂν δοῦλοσ οὐδείσ, ἐμποδίζοιτο ἂν μὴ πράττειν οὕτω τὴν πρᾶξιν καὶ ὑπὸ φίλων καὶ ὑπὸ ἐχθρῶν, τῶν μὲν ὀνειδιζόντων κολακείασ καὶ ἀνελευθερίασ, τῶν δὲ νουθετούντων καὶ αἰσχυνομένων ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ‐ τῷ δ’ ἐρῶντι πάντα ταῦτα ποιοῦντι χάρισ ἔπεστι, καὶ δέδοται ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου ἄνευ ὀνείδουσ πράττειν, ὡσ πάγκαλόν τι πρᾶγμα διαπραττομένου· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 101:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lying down to sleep

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

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