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λέξις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέξις λέξεως

Structure: λεξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. a saying, speech, a way of speaking, diction, style

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

  • θήσω δὲ αὐταῖσ λέξεσιν, ὡσ ἐκεῖ γέγραφα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 1:2)
  • τὰ αὐτὰ εἴρηκεν καὶ Ἀπολλόδωροσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Μύρων καὶ Στεφάνων αὐταῖσ λέξεσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 17 1:1)
  • αὐτὸσ γὰρ ὡσ ἐκλειφθέντα τὸν τόπον τοῦτον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀρχαίων ἄξιον ἱστορίασ ὑπείληφεν, αὐταῖσ λέξεσιν οὕτωσ γράφων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 114)
  • "ὅθεν, ὥσπερ οἱ περὶ τὸ θεῖον πλημμελήσαντεσ, ἐξαγορεύων τὰ ἑαυτοῦ κακὰ τελευτῶντοσ ἤδη τοῦ βιβλίου φησὶν ὅτι τὸν βίον οἱ νόμουσ διατάξαντεσ καὶ νόμιμα καὶ τὸ βασιλεύεσθαι τὰσ πόλεισ καὶ ἄρχεσθαι καταστήσαντεσ εἰσ πολλὴν ἀσφάλειαν καὶ ἡσυχίαν ἔθεντο καὶ θορύβων ἀπήλλαξαν εἰ δέ τισ ταῦτα ἀναιρήσει, θηρίων βίον βιωσόμεθα καὶ ὁ προστυχὼν τὸν ἐντυχόντα μονονοὺ κατέδεται τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ Κωλώτησ αὐταῖσ λέξεσιν ἐκπεφώνηκεν, οὐ δικαίωσ οὐδ’ ἀληθῶσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 30 1:1)
  • "οὐχ οἱ τὸ βασιλεύειν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ διάπτωσιν ἀποφαίνοντεσ καὶ γράφοντεσ αὐταῖσ λέξεσιν, ὅτι λέγειν δεῖ, πῶσ τισ ἄριστα τὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ τέλοσ συντηρήσει καὶ πῶσ τισ ἑκὼν εἶναι μὴ πρόσεισιν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐπὶ τὰσ τῶν πληθῶν ἀρχάσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 31 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

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