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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

  • αἵπερ γνώμην καὶ διάλεξιν καὶ νοῦν ἡμῖν παρέχουσιν καὶ τερατείαν καὶ περίλεξιν καὶ κροῦσιν καὶ κατάληψιν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests4)
  • καὶ Κρητικαὶ πέλται καὶ Θρᾴκια γέρρα καὶ φαρέτραι μετὰ ἱππικῶν ἀναμεμιγμέναι χαλινῶν, καὶ ξίφη γυμνὰ διὰ τούτων παρανίσχοντα καὶ σάρισαι παραπεπηγυῖαι, σύμμετρον ἐχόντων χάλασμα τῶν ὅπλων, ὥστε τήν πρὸσ ἄλληλα κροῦσιν ἐν τῷ διαφέρεσθαι τραχὺ καὶ φοβερὸν ὑπηχεῖν, καὶ μηδὲ νενικημένων ἄφοβον εἶναι τήν ὄψιν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 32 4:1)
  • τὸ δ’ αὐτὸ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ῥυθμῶν γινόμενον ἐθεασάμην, ἅμα πάντασ ἀγανακτοῦντασ καὶ δυσαρεστουμένουσ, ὅτε τισ ἢ κροῦσιν ἢ κίνησιν ἢ μορφὴν ἐν ἀσυμμέτροισ ποιήσαιτο χρόνοισ καὶ τοὺσ ῥυθμοὺσ ἀφανίσειεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1117)
  • καὶ γὰρ ταύτῃ κατὰ μὲν τὴν κροῦσιν ἐχρῶντο, καὶ πρὸσ παρανήτην διαφώνωσ καὶ πρὸσ μέσην συμφώνωσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 19 3:2)
  • κατὰ μὲν γὰρ τὴν κροῦσιν αὐτὴν διεφώνουν πρόσ τε παρανήτην καὶ πρὸσ παραμέσην, καὶ συνεφώνουν πρόσ τε μέσην καὶ πρὸσ λιχανόν κατὰ δὲ τὸ μέλοσ κἂν αἰσχυνθῆναι τῷ χρησαμένῳ ἐπὶ τῷ γιγνομένῳ δι’ αὐτὴν ἤθει. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 19 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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