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κόλουσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλουσις κόλουσεως

Structure: κολουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from kolou/w

Sense

  1. a docking, cutting short

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

  • μοχθηρίασ γὰρ οὐκ ἦν κόλασισ ὁ ἐξοστρακισμόσ, ἀλλ’ ἐκαλεῖτο μὲν δι’ εὐπρέπειαν ὄγκου καὶ δυνάμεωσ βαρυτέρασ ταπείνωσισ καὶ κόλουσισ, ἦν δὲ φθόνου παραμυθία φιλάνθρωποσ, εἰσ ἀνήκεστον οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ εἰσ μετάστασιν ἐτῶν δέκα τὴν πρὸσ τὸ λυποῦν ἀπερειδομένου δυσμένειαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 2:2)
  • ᾗ καὶ τὸ θεράπευμα δυσχερὲσ καὶ οὐκ ἀκίνδυνοσ ἡ τῶν τοιούτων πλεονασμῶν κόλουσισ· (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 2 2:1)
  • ὅθεν καὶ τὸ Περιάνδρου πρὸσ Θρασύβουλον συμβούλευμά ἐστιν, ἡ τῶν ὑπερεχόντων σταχύων κόλουσισ, ὡσ δέον αἰεὶ τοὺσ ὑπερέχοντασ τῶν πολιτῶν ἀναιρεῖν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 226:1)

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

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