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παραίφασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραίφασις παραίφασεως

Structure: παραιφασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for para/fasis

Sense

  1. persuasion

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

  • γαῖα δὲ δακρύσαντι χαριζομένη βασιλῆι ἄνθοσ ἀνηέξησε, παραίφασιν Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ἄνθοσ ἀριζήλοιο φερώνυμον ἡβητῆροσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1116)
  • ἔνθεν ἑῶν τόδ’ ἄγαλμα παραίφασιν εὑρ͂εν ἐρώτων, ὄφρα ἑ μὴ λήθη καὶ χρόνοσ ἀμφιβάλοι, ἀλλὰ μένοι ποθέουσιν ἔρωσ, ζῆλοσ δ’ ἐλατῆρσι, κόσμοσ δὲ σταδίοισ, ἐσσομένοισ δὲ φάτισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3733)
  • ἦν δὲ πόνου καὶ τοῦτο παραίφασισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 285 1:2)
  • ἀγαθὴ δὲ παραίφασίσ ἐστιν ἑταίρου. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 66:12)
  • ἀγαθὴ δὲ παραίφασίσ ἐστιν ἑταίρου. (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 43:7)

Synonyms

  1. persuasion

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

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