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κροῦσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κροῦσις κροῦσεως

Structure: κρουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: krou/w

Sense

  1. a striking, smiting
  2. a tapping, deception, cheatery
  3. a playing on a stringed instrument

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

  • αὐτίκα οἱ κιθαρίζειν τε καὶ ψάλλειν καὶ αὐλεῖν ἄκρωσ εἰδότεσ ὅταν κρούσεωσ ἀκούσωσιν ἀσυνήθουσ, οὐ πολλὰ πραγματευθέντεσ ἀπαριθμοῦσιν αὐτὴν εὐθὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀργάνων ἅμα νοήσει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2574)
  • παντοδαπῶν γάρ, ὡσ εἰκόσ, παθῶν ἐν ὄχλῳ τοσαύτην τὸ μέγεθοσ ἀρχὴν ἔχοντι φυομένων, μόνοσ ἐμμελῶσ ἕκαστα διαχειρίσασθαι πεφυκώσ, μάλιστα δ’ ἐλπίσι καὶ φόβοισ ὥσπερ οἰάξι προσστέλλων τὸ θρασυνόμενον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ δύσθυμον ἀνιεὶσ καὶ παραμυθούμενοσ, ἔδειξε τὴν ῥητορικὴν κατὰ Πλάτωνα ψυχαγωγίαν οὖσαν καὶ μέγιστον ἔργον αὐτῆσ τὴν περὶ τὰ ἤθη καὶ πάθη μέθοδον, ὥσπερ τινὰσ τόνουσ καὶ φθόγγουσ ψυχῆσ μάλ’ ἐμμελοῦσ ἁφῆσ καὶ κρούσεωσ δεομένουσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 15 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a playing on a stringed instrument

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

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