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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

  • οὐκοῦν κακῶσ ἐχρήσατο τῇ λέξει ὁ Αἰσχίνησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiae, chapter 42)
  • καθόλου δὲ τριῶν ὄντων, ὥσ φησι Θεόφραστοσ, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται τὸ μέγα καὶ σεμνὸν καὶ περιττὸν ἐν λέξει, τῆσ τε ἐκλογῆσ τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ τῆσ ἐκ τούτων ἁρμονίασ καὶ τῶν περιλαμβανόντων αὐτὰ σχημάτων, ἐκλέγει μὲν εὖ πάνυ καὶ τὰ κράτιστα τῶν ὀνομάτων τίθησιν, ἁρμόττει δὲ αὐτὰ περιέργωσ, τὴν εὐφωνίαν ἐντείνων μουσικήν, σχηματίζει τε φορτικῶσ καὶ τὰ πολλὰ γίνεται ψυχρὸσ ἢ τῷ πόρρωθεν λαμβάνειν ἢ τῷ μὴ πρέποντα εἶναι τὰ σχήματα τοῖσ πράγμασι διὰ τὸ μὴ κρατεῖν τοῦ μετρίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 31)
  • βούλεται δὲ ἡ φύσισ τοῖσ νοήμασιν ἕπεσθαι τὴν λέξιν, οὐ τῇ λέξει τὰ νοήματα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 2:1)
  • καὶ συντίθησί γε αὐτὴν ἀφελῶσ πάνυ καὶ ἁπλῶσ, ὁρῶν ὅτι οὐκ ἐν τῇ περιόδῳ καὶ τοῖσ ῥυθμοῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῇ διαλελυμένῃ λέξει γίνεται τὸ ἦθοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 86)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ αὐτὴν εἰσ Λυσίαν ἀναφερομένην φερομένην οὔτε τοῖσ πράγμασιν ἀτόπωσ ἔχουσαν οὔτε τοῖσ ὀνόμασιν ἀσθενῶσ δι’ ὑποψίασ ἔλαβον οὐκ ἐπανθούσησ τῇ λέξει τῆσ Λυσιακῆσ χάριτοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 12 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

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