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παραδοξία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραδοξία

Structure: παραδοξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: para/docos

Sense

  1. marvellousness

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παραδοξία παραδοξίᾱ παραδοξίαι
Genitive παραδοξίᾱς παραδοξίαιν παραδοξιῶν
Dative παραδοξίᾱͅ παραδοξίαιν παραδοξίαις
Accusative παραδοξίᾱν παραδοξίᾱ παραδοξίᾱς
Vocative παραδοξίᾱ παραδοξίᾱ παραδοξίαι

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

  • ἄλλωσ τε τῶν παρ’ ἑκάστοισ ἰδίων ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ γνωριμώτατα, ἃ καὶ παραδοξίαν ἔχει τινά, καὶ ἐν τῷ φανερῷ πᾶσίν ἐστι· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 58:4)
  • εἰκὸσ δέ, ὥσπερ νιτρώδη τινὰ καὶ στύφοντα ὑγρὰ καὶ ἀσφαλτώδη καὶ θειώδη διαρρεῖ τὴν γῆν, οὕτω καὶ λιπαρὰ εὑρίσκεσθαι, τὸ δὲ σπάνιον ποιεῖ τὴν παραδοξίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 11 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. marvellousness

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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