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μετάφρασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετάφρασις μετάφρασιος

Structure: μεταφρασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from metafra/zw

Sense

  1. a paraphrasing

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

  • τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆσ λέξεωσ μεταδιώκειν καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆσ πραγματείασ παραιτεῖσθαι τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συγχωρητέον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:31)

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

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