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παραφροσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραφροσύνη

Structure: παραφροσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: para/frwn

Sense

  1. 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

  • Αἱ παραφροσύναι αἱ μὲν μετὰ γέλωτοσ γινόμεναι, ἀσφαλέστεραι‧ αἱ δὲ μετὰ σπουδῆσ, ἐπισφαλέστεραι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 60.53)
  • Ἀπόλλυνται δὲ οἱ μὲν νεώτεροι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἑβδομαῖοι καὶ ἔτι θᾶσσον ὑπὸ τουτέου τοῦ νουσήματοσ‧ οἱ δὲ γέροντεσ πολλῷ βραδύτερον‧ οἵ τε γὰρ πυρετοὶ καὶ αἱ παραφροσύναι ἧσσον αὐτέοισιν ἐπιγίγνονται, καὶ τὰ ὦτα διὰ τοῦτο φθάνει ἐκπυί̈σκεσθαι‧ ἀλλὰ ταύτῃσι μὲν τῇσιν ἡλικίῃσιν ὑποστροφαὶ τοῦ νουσήματοσ ἐπιγιγνόμεναι ἀποκτείνουσι τοὺσ πλείστουσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 22.3)

Synonyms

  1. derangement

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

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