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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λέξις λέξει λέξεις
Genitive λέξεως λέξοιν λέξεων
Dative λέξει λέξοιν λέξεσιν*
Accusative λέξιν λέξει λέξεις
Vocative λέξι λέξει λέξεις

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

  • μεῖνόν με μικρὸν ἔτι, ἵνα διδάξω σε. ἔτι γὰρ ἐν ἐμοί ἐστι λέξισ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 36:2)
  • Ἔστι λέξισ ἀντιπεριβεβλημένη θανάτῳ, μὴ εὑρεθήτω ἐν κληρονομίᾳ Ἰακώβ. ἀπὸ γὰρ εὐσεβῶν ταῦτα πάντα ἀποστήσεται, καὶ ἐν ἁμαρτίαισ οὐκ ἐγκυλισθήσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 23:12)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἡ λέξισ ἐν τῷ προοιμίῳ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 9 1:7)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ ἡ λέξισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 162)
  • καθαρά τε γὰρ ἡ λέξισ καὶ κοινὴ καὶ σαφήσ, ὑψηλή τε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπὴσ καὶ τὸ πομπικὸν ἔχουσα πολύ, συγκειμένη τε κατὰ τὴν μέσην ἁρμονίαν, ἡδέωσ καὶ μαλακῶσ ῥέουσα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 6 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

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