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ὀλιγοσιτία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγοσιτία

Structure: ὀλιγοσιτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. small eating, moderation in food

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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ὀλιγοσιτίαν ὡσ ὠφέλιμον πολλὰ πεφιλοσόφηκεν ὁ νομοθέτησ, καὶ πρὸσ τὴν διάζευξιν τῶν γυναικῶν, ἵνα μὴ πολυτεκνῶσι, τὴν πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄρρενασ ποιήσασ ὁμιλίαν, περὶ ἧσ εἰ φαύλωσ ἢ μὴ φαύλωσ, ἕτεροσ ἔσται τοῦ διασκέψασθαι καιρόσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 263:1)

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

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