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παραφορά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραφορά

Structure: παραφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: parafe/romai

Sense

  1. a going aside, derangement

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

  • καίτοι Δείνων φησὶν ὅτι Οἄρσησ, ἀλλὰ τὸν Κτησίαν, εἰ καὶ τἆλλα μύθων ἀπιθάνων καὶ παραφόρων ἐμβέβληκεν εἰσ τὰ βιβλία παντοδαπὴν πυλαίαν, οὐκ εἰκόσ ἐστιν ἀγνοεῖν τοὔνομα τοῦ βασιλέωσ παρ’ ᾧ διέτριβε θεραπεύων αὐτὸν καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ μητέρα καὶ παῖδασ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 1 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a going aside

Related

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

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