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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

  • τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆσ λέξεωσ μεταδιώκειν καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆσ πραγματείασ παραιτεῖσθαι τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συγχωρητέον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:31)
  • ΜΕΤΑ δὲ τὸ παύσασθαι Ἐλιοὺν τῆσ λέξεωσ εἶπεν ὁ Κύριοσ τῷ Ἰὼβ διὰ λαίλαποσ καὶ νεφῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:1)
  • ἵνα δὲ συνελὼν εἴπω, τέσσαρα μέν ἐστιν ὥσπερ ὄργανα τῆσ Θουκυδίδου λέξεωσ, τὸ ποιητικὸν τῶν ὀνομάτων, τὸ πολυειδὲσ τῶν σχημάτων, τὸ τραχὺ τῆσ ἁρμονίασ, τὸ τάχοσ τῆσ σημασίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 3:5)
  • τοιουτοσὶ μὲν δὴ τίσ ἐστιν ὁ Θουκυδίδησ κατὰ τὸν τῆσ λέξεωσ χαρακτῆρα, ᾧ παρὰ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ διήνεγκεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 4:2)
  • ἐν οἷσ δὲ τὰ ῥηματικὰ μόρια τῆσ λέξεωσ ὀνοματικῶσ σχηματίζει, τοιαύτην ποιεῖ τὴν φράσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 51)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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