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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λογοποιία λογοποιίᾱ λογοποιίαι
Genitive λογοποιίᾱς λογοποιίαιν λογοποιιῶν
Dative λογοποιίᾱͅ λογοποιίαιν λογοποιίαις
Accusative λογοποιίᾱν λογοποιίᾱ λογοποιίᾱς
Vocative λογοποιίᾱ λογοποιίᾱ λογοποιίαι

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

  • Ἡ δὲ λογοποιία ἐστὶ σύνθεσισ ψευδῶν λόγων καὶ πράξεων, ὧν πιστεύεσθαι βούλεται ὁ λογοποιῶν, ὁ δὲ λογοποιὸσ τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ ἀπαντήσασ τῷ φίλῳ εὐθὺσ καταβαλὼν τὸ ἦθοσ καὶ μειδιάσασ ἐρωτῆσαι· (Theophrastus, Characters, 1:1)
  • συνέκρουον δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἐν τέλει ποικίλαισ ἐπινοίαισ καὶ λογοποιίαισ, καιρὸν ἑαυτοῖσ ἐν ταῖσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τῶν κωλυόντων φιλονεικίαισ ποιούμενοι, μέχρι τῶν εἰσ ἀνθρώπουσ ὑπερεμπλησθέντεσ ἀδικημάτων ἐπὶ τὸ θεῖον μετήνεγκαν τὴν ὕβριν καὶ μεμιασμένοισ τοῖσ ποσὶ παρῄεσαν εἰσ τὸ ἅγιον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 174:1)

Synonyms

  1. tale-telling

Similar forms

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

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