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μεσεγγύημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσεγγύημα μεσεγγύηματος

Structure: μεσεγγυηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from meseggua/w

Sense

  1. money or a pledge deposited with a third party

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

  • τοῦ δόγματοσ τούτου ἀποδοθέντοσ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ βουλῇ καὶ πάλιν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησία, καὶ τὰσ πράξεισ ἡμῶν ἀποδεξαμένου τοῦ δήμου, καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἁπάσησ προαιρουμένησ εὐσεβεῖν, καὶ Δημοσθένουσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μεσεγγυήματοσ τοῦ ἐξ Ἀμφίσσησ ἀντιλέγοντοσ, καὶ ἐμοῦ φανερῶσ ἐναντίον ὑμῶν ἐξελέγχοντοσ, ἐπειδὴ ἐκ τοῦ φανεροῦ τὴν πόλιν ἅνθρωποσ οὐκ ἐδύνατο σφῆλαι, εἰσελθὼν εἰσ τὸ βουλευτήριον καὶ μεταστησάμενοσ τοὺσ ἰδιώτασ, ἐκφέρεται προβούλευμα εἰσ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, προσλαβὼν τὴν τοῦ γράψαντοσ ἀπειρίαν· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 125 1:1)
  • ὤφθη δέ που καὶ μεσεγγύημα ταλάντων ὀκτακοσίων ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἐπωνύμου γενόμενον ἀρχῆσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 3 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. money or a pledge deposited with a third party

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

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