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νομοθεσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νομοθεσία

Structure: νομοθεσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from nomoqete/w

Sense

  1. lawgiving, legislation

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

  • ἔπειθ’ αἱ μὲν νομοθεσίαι ἐκ πολλοῦ χρόνου σκεψαμένων γίνονται, αἱ δὲ κρίσεισ ἐξ ὑπογυίου, ὥστε χαλεπὸν ἀποδιδόναι τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τὸ συμφέρον καλῶσ τοὺσ κρίνοντασ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 1 7:2)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ αἱ νομοθεσίαι καὶ τὸ ὠφέλιμον περὶ τὸ μέλλον ἐστί, καὶ πᾶσ ἂν ὁμολογοῖ νομοθετουμένην πόλιν πολλάκισ ἀνάγκην εἶναι τοῦ ὠφελιμωτάτου ἀποτυγχάνειν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 225:1)

Synonyms

  1. lawgiving

Related

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

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