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λογοποιία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λογοποιία

Structure: λογοποιι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from logopoie/w

Sense

  1. tale-telling, news-mongering

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

  • δεῖν μέντοι κἀκεῖνον ἀποφράττειν τὰσ λογοποιίασ τῷ μὴ πιστεύειν ῥᾳδίωσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 682:2)
  • κατεπατεῖτο μὲν οὖν πᾶσ αὐτοῖσ θεσμὸσ ἀνθρώπων, ἐγελᾶτο δὲ τὰ θεῖα, καὶ τοὺσ τῶν προφητῶν χρησμοὺσ ὥσπερ ἀγυρτικὰσ λογοποιίασ ἐχλεύαζον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 436:1)

Synonyms

  1. tale-telling

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

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