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κρυπτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρυπτεία

Structure: κρυπτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: krupteu/w

Sense

  1. a secret commission

Declension

First 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

  • ἡ δὲ καλουμένη κρυπτεία παρ’ αὐτοῖσ, εἴ γε δὴ τοῦτο τῶν Λυκούργου πολιτευμάτων ἕν ἐστιν, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστόρηκε, ταύτην ἂν εἰή καὶ τῷ Πλάτωνι περὶ τῆσ πολιτείασ καὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἐνειργασμένη δόξαν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 28 1:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ κρυπτεία τισ ὀνομάζεται θαυμαστῶσ πολύπονοσ πρὸσ τὰσ καρτερήσεισ, χειμώνων τε ἀνυποδησίαι καὶ ἀστρωσίαι καὶ ἄνευ θεραπόντων αὐτοῖσ ἑαυτῶν διακονήσεισ νύκτωρ τε πλανωμένων διὰ πάσησ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν. (Plato, Laws, book 1 54:4)

Synonyms

  1. a secret commission

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

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