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παλαίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαίωσις παλαίωσεως

Structure: παλαιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: palaio/omai

Sense

  1. a growing old

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παλαίωσις παλαιώσει παλαιώσεις
Genitive παλαιώσεως παλαιώσοιν παλαιώσεων
Dative παλαιώσει παλαιώσοιν παλαιώσεσιν*
Accusative παλαίωσιν παλαιώσει παλαιώσεις
Vocative παλαίωσι παλαιώσει παλαιώσεις

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

  • παλαίωσισ δ’ ἐπίτασιν ποιεῖ, ἐκκρινομένου τοῦ ὑδατώδουσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 11:2)
  • "οἴνῳ μὲν γὰρ ὠφέλιμον, ἐλαίῳ δ’ ἀσύμφορον παλαίωσισ, ἣν ἑκατέρου προσπίπτων ὁ ἀὴρ ἀφαιρεῖ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 15:3)
  • διὸ τοῦ μὲν οἴνου τὸ ἄνω φαυλότατον τοῦ δ’ ἐλαίου βέλτιστον ἡ γὰρ παλαίωσισ τῷ μὲν τὴν ἀρίστην τῷ δὲ τὴν κακίστην ἐμποιεῖ διάθεσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 15:6)

Synonyms

  1. a growing old

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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