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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

  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν εἰσ πᾶσαν τὴν βασιλείαν κατὰ χώραν, κατὰ τὴν λέξιν αὐτῶν, ὥστε εἶναι φόβον αὐτοῖσ ἐν ταῖσ οἰκίαισ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:38)
  • καὶ ἐκλήθησαν οἱ γραμματεῖσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ μηνὶ πρώτῳ τῇ τρισκαιδεκάτῃ καὶ ἔγραψαν, ὡσ ἐπέταξεν Ἀμάν, τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ, καὶ τοῖσ ἄρχουσι κατὰ πᾶσαν χώραν ἀπὸ Ἰνδικῆσ ἕωσ τῆσ Αἰθιοπίασ, ταῖσ ἑκατὸν εἰκοσιεπτὰ χώραισ, τοῖσ τε ἄρχουσι τῶν ἐθνῶν κατὰ τὴν αὐτῶν λέξιν δἰ Ἀρταξέρξου τοῦ βασιλέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:12)
  • ἐκλήθησαν δὲ οἱ γραμματεῖσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ μηνί, ὅσ ἐστι Νισάν, τρίτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτουσ, καὶ ἐγράφη τοῖσ Ἰουδαίοισ ὅσα ἐνετείλατο τοῖσ οἰκονόμοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἄρχουσι τῶν σατραπῶν, ἀπὸ τῆσ Ἰνδικῆσ ἕωσ τῆσ Αἰθιοπίασ, ἑκατὸν εἰκοσιεπτὰ σατράπαισ κατὰ χώραν καὶ χώραν, κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν λέξιν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:9)
  • τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆσ λέξεωσ μεταδιώκειν καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆσ πραγματείασ παραιτεῖσθαι τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συγχωρητέον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:31)
  • 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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