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πάθη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάθη πάθης

Structure: παθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: paqei=n

Sense

  1. a passive state, what happened, that had happened

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

  • στέργειν γὰρ αἱ πάθαι με χὠ χρόνοσ ξυνὼν μακρὸσ διδάσκει καὶ τὸ γενναῖον τρίτον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:4)
  • Ἐξελέγχει γὰρ ἡ ξύσισ μάλα τὸ κακὸν, ἢν μὴ καὶ ἄλλωσ καταφανέεσ ἐώσιν αὗται αἱ πάθαι ἐοῦσαι ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.4)

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

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