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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κροῦσις κρούσει κρούσεις
Genitive κρούσεως κρούσοιν κρούσεων
Dative κρούσει κρούσοιν κρούσεσιν*
Accusative κροῦσιν κρούσει κρούσεις
Vocative κροῦσι κρούσει κρούσεις

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

  • περὶ τοὺσ ὀδόντασ τε γὰρ ἡ κροῦσισ τοῦ πνεύματοσ γίνεται μικρὸν ἀνοιγομένου τοῦ στόματοσ καὶ οὐκ ἐπιλαμπρυνόντων τῶν χειλῶν τὸν ἦχον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1430)

Synonyms

  1. a playing on a stringed instrument

Similar forms

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

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