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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

  • τὸν ἄρτι μετὰ πολλῆσ παραδρομῆσ καὶ πάσησ δορυφορίασ εἰσ τὸ προειρημένον εἰσελθόντα γαζοφυλάκιον ἔφερον ἀβοήθητον ἑαυτῷ καθεστῶτα, φανερῶσ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ δυναστείαν ἐπεγνωκότεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:28)
  • δεῖ τοίνυν τὸν παῖδα τὸν ἐλεύθερον μηδενὸσ μηδὲ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν καλουμένων ἐγκυκλίων παιδευμάτων μήτ’ ἀνήκοον μήτ’ ἀθέατον ἐᾶν εἶναι, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἐκ παραδρομῆσ μαθεῖν ὡσπερεὶ γεύματοσ ἕνεκεν ἐν ἅπασι γὰρ τὸ τέλειον ἀδύνατον, τὴν δὲ φιλοσοφίαν πρεσβεύειν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 101)
  • "σκώμματοσ δὲ τῷ μὴ δυναμένῳ μετ’ εὐλαβείασ καὶ τέχνησ κατὰ καιρὸν ἅπτεσθαι παντάπασιν ἀφεκτέον ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ ἐν ὀλισθηρῷ τόπῳ, κἂν θίγωσιν ἐκ παραδρομῆσ μόνον, ἀνατρέπουσιν, οὕτωσ ἐν οἴνῳ πρὸσ πᾶσαν ἀφορμὴν λόγου μὴ κατὰ σχῆμα γιγνομένην ἐπισφαλῶσ ἔχομεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 8:1)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἄξιόσ ἐστιν ἐκ παραδρομῆσ, ἀλλὰ μετ’ ἐπιστάσεωσ τυχεῖν τῆσ ἁρμοζούσησ μνήμησ. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 34 2:1)

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

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