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κύησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύησις κύησεως

Structure: κυησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. conception

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

  • ἕλκωσισ δὲ καὶ κυήσεωσ ἀρχή μῖξισ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι τῶν μὴ πρὸσ ἄλληλα πεπονθότων. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 242)
  • οὕτω γοῦν ὑφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ τεκνωθῆναι τὸν αὑτοῦ πρόγονον, οὐκ ἐν μιᾷ γαστρὶ θεμένου τὴν διαδοχὴν οὐδὲ νόμουσ Σολωνείουσ καὶ κυήσεωσ εὐθύνασ δεδοικότοσ, ἀλλὰ τῇ φύσει πολλὰσ γενῶν ἀρχὰσ καὶ καταβολὰσ ἀπολιπεῖν ἐφιέντοσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 36 4:1)
  • δεῖται γὰρ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ πανταχόθεν ἐσφίγχθαι καὶ περιτετάσθαι τοῖσ ἐνυπάρχουσι τὸ μόριον, ἡ μὲν γαστὴρ ἐν τῷ τῆσ πέψεωσ, αἱ μῆτραι δ’ ἐν τῷ τῆσ κυήσεωσ χρόνῳ παντί. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 117)
  • "καὶ ὅλωσ ἄρρενι θεῷ πρὸσ γυναῖκα θνητὴν ἀπολείπουσιν ὁμιλίαν ἀνάπαλιν δ’ οὐκ ἂν οἰόνται θνητὸν ἄνδρα θηλείᾳ θεῷ τόκου καὶ κυήσεωσ ἀρχὴν παρασχεῖν διὰ τὸ τὰσ οὐσίασ τῶν θεῶν ἐν ἀέρι καὶ πνεύμασι καί τισι θερμότησι καὶ ὑγρότησι τίθεσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 17:3)
  • καὶ τἆλλά τε πάντα μετέβαλλε, ἀπομιμούμενα καὶ συνακολουθοῦντα τῷ τοῦ παντὸσ παθήματι, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸ τῆσ κυήσεωσ καὶ γεννήσεωσ καὶ τροφῆσ μίμημα συνείπετο τοῖσ πᾶσιν ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 101:5)

Synonyms

  1. conception

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

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