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παραδρομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραδρομή

Structure: παραδρομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: paradramei=n

Sense

  1. a running beside or over, traversing, cursorily

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

  • τούτοισ ἐπαρθείσ ἠπείγετο τὴν παραλίαν ἀνακαθήρασθαι μέχρι τῆσ Φοινίκησ καὶ Κιλικίασ, ἡ δὲ τῆσ Παμφυλίασ παραδρομὴ πολλοῖσ γέγονε τῶν ἱστορικῶν ὑπόθεσισ γραφικὴ πρὸσ ἔκπληξιν καὶ ὄγκον, ὡσ θείᾳ τινὶ τύχῃ παραχωρήσασαν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τὴν θάλασσαν, ἄλλωσ ἀεὶ τραχεῖαν ἐκ πελάγουσ προσφερομένην, σπανίωσ δέ ποτε λεπτοὺσ καὶ προσεχεῖσ ὑπὸ τὰ κρημνώδη καὶ παρερρωγότα τῆσ ὀρεινῆσ πάγουσ διακαλύπτουσαν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 17 3:1)
  • νῦν μὲν οὖν ἐν παραδρομῇ τοῦτον πεποιήμεθα τὸν λόγον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 316:1)

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

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