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ὀξεῖα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξεῖα ὀξείᾱς

Structure: ὀξει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. oxia (the acute accent, indicating high or rising pitch)

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

  • τὸ γὰρ δὴ παθητικὸν καὶ ἄλογον κινήσεσι χρῆται ταῖσ μὲν ἄγαν σφοδραῖσ καὶ ὀξείαισ ταῖσ δὲ μαλακωτέραισ ἢ προσήκει καὶ ἀργοτέραισ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 5 8:3)
  • τὸ γὰρ δὴ παθητικὸν καὶ ἄλογον κινήσεσι χρῆται ταῖσ μὲν ἄγαν σφοδραῖσ καὶ ὀξείαισ ταῖσ δὲ μαλακωτέραισ ἢ προσήκει καὶ ἀργοτέραισ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 5 4:2)
  • τούτων ἔδοξεν γυμνὸσ αὐτῷ κᾶποσ ὀξείαισ ὑπακουέμεν αὐγαῖσ ἁλίου. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 3 9:2)
  • ἐν χερὶ δ’ Ἀμφιτρύων κολεοῦ γυμνὸν τινάσσων φάσγανον ἵκετ’, ὀξείαισ ἀνίαισι τυπείσ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 1 17:1)
  • ὅταν γὰρ τηκομένη σὰρξ ἀνάπαλιν εἰσ τὰσ φλέβασ τὴν τηκεδόνα ἐξιῇ, τότε μετὰ πνεύματοσ αἷμα πολύ τε καὶ παντοδαπὸν ἐν ταῖσ φλεψὶ χρώμασι καὶ πικρότησι ποικιλλόμενον, ἔτι δὲ ὀξείαισ καὶ ἁλμυραῖσ δυνάμεσι, χολὰσ καὶ ἰχῶρασ καὶ φλέγματα παντοῖα ἴσχει· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 429:2)

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