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οἰκοδομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκοδομή

Structure: οἰκοδομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a late form for oi)kodo/mhma, Plut., NTest.

Sense

  1. a building ; the construction/making of a house

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

  • οἱ Βρέττιοι ἑκόντεσ ὑποταγέντεσ Ῥωμαίοισ τὴν ἡμίσειαν τῆσ ὀρεινῆσ παρέδωκαν αὐτοῖσ, ἣ καλεῖται μὲν Σίλα, μεστὴ δ’ ἐστὶν ὕλησ εἰσ οἰκοδομάσ τε καὶ ναυπηγίασ καὶ πᾶσαν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν εὐθέτου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 15 2:1)
  • τὰσ μὲν οὖν οἰκοδομὰσ διαμεμενηκέναι μέχρι τῶν νεωτέρων χρόνων, τὸν δ’ ἄργυρον καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ τὴν δι’ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ λιθείασ πολυτέλειαν ὑπὸ Περσῶν σεσυλῆσθαι καθ’ οὓσ καιροὺσ ἐνέπρησε τὰ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον ἱερὰ Καμβύσησ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 46 4:1)
  • Καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὁ Ιἠσοῦσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐπορεύετο, καὶ προσῆλθον οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπιδεῖξαι αὐτῷ τὰσ οἰκοδομὰσ τοῦ ἱεροῦ· (, chapter 24 2:1)
  • καὶ ὁ Ιἠσοῦσ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Βλέπεισ ταύτασ τὰσ μεγάλασ οἰκοδομάσ; (, chapter 10 150:1)
  • καὶ τὴν ξυλείαν τὴν εἰσ τὰσ οἰκοδομὰσ σελμάτων εὐθυτάτων καὶ εὐμηκεστάτων ἡ Τυρρηνία χορηγεῖ τὴν πλείστην, τῷ ποταμῷ κατάγουσα ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν εὐθύσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 10:11)

Similar forms

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

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