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ὀψωνιασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψωνιασμός ὀψωνιασμοῦ

Structure: ὀψωνιασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)ywnia/zw

Sense

  1. a furnishing with provisions, the supplies and pay of an army

Declension

Second 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 δὲ προσιὸν ἐκ τῶν μισθώσεων ἀργύριον εἰσ τοὺσ ὀψωνιασμοὺσ τῶν στρατευομένων ἀναλοῦσθαι καὶ εἰσ τὰσ μισθώσεισ ὧν οἱ πόλεμοι χορηγιῶν δέονται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 73 5:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἦν ἄρα γραμματεὺσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, ἐκάθητο δ’ ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματοσ διαριθμῶν τοὺσ στρατιώτασ καὶ διαγράφων αὐτοῖσ τοὺσ ὀψωνιασμούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 28 3:1)
  • αἱ δὲ γυναῖκεσ αἱ τὸν πρὸ τοῦ χρόνον ἀπαγομένουσ περιορῶσαι τοὺσ σφετέρουσ ἄνδρασ καὶ γονεῖσ πρὸσ τὰσ εἰσφοράσ, τότε συνομνύουσαι κατὰ πόλεισ ἐφ’ ᾧ μηδὲν κρύψειν τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐταῖσ, ἀφαιρούμεναι τὸν κόσμον εἰσέφερον ἀπροφασίστωσ εἰσ τοὺσ ὀψωνιασμούσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 72 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a furnishing with provisions

Related

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

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