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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)
  • ἵνα δὲ εὐπαρακολούθητοσ ὁ λόγοσ σοι γένηται, προθεὶσ κατὰ λέξιν, ὅσα περὶ τοῦ συγγραφέωσ τυγχάνω προειρηκώσ, ἐπιτροχάδην ἀναλήψομαι τῶν προθέσεων ἑκάστην καὶ τὰσ ἀποδείξεισ παρέξομαι, καθάπερ ἠξίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 21)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν τῆσ ἐκλογῆσ τῶν ὀνομάτων τὴν τροπικὴν καὶ γλωττηματικὴν καὶ ἀπηρχαιωμένην καὶ ξένην λέξιν παραλαμβάνων πολλάκισ ἀντὶ τῆσ κοινῆσ καὶ συνήθουσ τοῖσ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ἀνθρώποισ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν σχηματισμῶν, ἐν οἷσ μάλιστα ἐβουλήθη διενεγκεῖν τῶν πρὸ αὑτοῦ, πλείστην εἰσενεγκάμενοσ πραγματείαν, τοτὲ μὲν λόγον ἐξ ὀνόματοσ ποιῶν, τοτὲ δὲ εἰσ ὄνομα συνάγων τὸν λόγον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

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