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παλινῳδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλινῳδία

Structure: παλινῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh

Sense

  1. a palinode or recantation

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

  • "εἶτα παρανομήσασ τι καὶ ἐσ ἐκείνουσ ‐ ὤφθη γάρ τι, ὡσ οἶμαι, ἐσθίων τῶν ἀπορρήτων αὐτοῖσ ‐ οὐκέτι προσιεμένων αὐτὸν ἀπορούμενοσ ἐκ παλινῳδίασ ἀπαιτεῖν ᾤετο δεῖν παρὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ τὰ κτήματα, καὶ γραμματεῖον ἐπιδοὺσ ἠξίου ταῦτα κομίσασθαι κελεύσαντοσ βασιλέωσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:37)
  • εἴτε γάρ τι ἡμῖν λελήρηται, οὐδὲν δεῖ τῆσ Στησιχόρου παλινῳδίασ, ἀλλὰ σπογγιὰ ἰάσεται, εἴτε τι καὶ κρεῖττον ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ ἔνεστιν ἢ ὡσ τοῦτο τὸ ἆθλον πρέπειν αὐτοῖσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:8)

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

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