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κούφισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κούφισμα κούφισματος

Structure: κουφισματ (Stem)

Etym.: = kou/fisis, Eur.

Sense

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

  • ὡσ πᾶσ’ ἀπήνη πούσ τε πρεσβύτου φιλεῖ χειρὸσ θυραίασ ἀναμένειν κουφίσματα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode11)
  • τὸ γὰρ μὴ δι’ αὑτὸν κακῶσ πράττειν ὁ μὲν Κράντωρ φησὶν οὐ μικρὸν εἶναι κούφισμα πρὸσ τὰσ τύχασ, ἐγὼ δ’ ἂν εἴποιμι φάρμακον ἀλυπίασ εἶναι μέγιστον. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 251)

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

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