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λιμοκτονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμοκτονία

Structure: λιμοκτονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from li_moktone/w

Sense

  1. a killing by hunger or by abstinence from food

Declension

First 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

  • ὦ ἄνθρωποι οἱ λέγοντεσ αὖ ἀγαθὰ ἀνιαρὰ εἶναι, ἆρα οὐ τὰ τοιάδε λέγετε, οἱο͂ν τά τε γυμνάσια καὶ τὰσ στρατείασ καὶ τὰσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θεραπείασ τὰσ διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομῶν καὶ φαρμακειῶν καὶ λιμοκτονιῶν γιγνομένασ, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀγαθὰ μέν ἐστιν, ἀνιαρὰ δέ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 372:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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