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λέξις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: lexis

Principal Part: λέξις λέξεως

Structure: λεξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: λέγω

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

  • 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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