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μισθοδοσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθοδοσία

Structure: μισθοδοσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from misqodote/w

Sense

  1. payment of wages

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

  • εὖ ἴσθι ὅτι ὁ ἐμὸσ ἔρωσ τούτου αἴτιοσ τὸ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἐμὲ πιστὸν γενέσθαι, καὶ ᾧ Κῦροσ ἀνέβη ξενικῷ διὰ μισθοδοσίασ πιστεύων τούτῳ ἐμὲ καταβῆναι δι’ εὐεργεσίαν ἰσχυρόν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 24:2)
  • ἀπορούμενοσ δὲ χρημάτων εἰσ τὰσ τῶν ξένων μισθοδοσίασ ἐξαπέστειλε στρατιώτασ χιλίουσ μετὰ τῶν ἀξιολογωτάτων ἡγεμόνων εἰσ τὴν τῶν Καρχηδονίων ἐπικράτειαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 70 22:1)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ τῶν στρατηγῶν καὶ μισθοδοσίασ ἐποίουν ἐκ τῶν κοινῶν τοῖσ ἀπόροισ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Polybius, Histories, book 20, chapter 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. payment of wages

Related

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

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