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παράδυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράδυσις παράδυσεως

Structure: παραδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from paradu/omai

Sense

  1. a creeping in beside, encroachment

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπεὶ ὅτι γε τοῦτο παράδυσισ ἦν κατὰ μικρὸν καὶ ἐθισμὸσ τοῦ ἀνέχεσθαι ἡμᾶσ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ εἴσπλουσ, κἀκεῖθεν δῆλον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 34:1)
  • ἥ τε πολυπραγμοσύνη παράδυσὶσ ἐστι καὶ φθορὰ καὶ ἀπογύμνωσισ τῶν ἀπορρήτων. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 8 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a creeping in beside

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

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