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παρακμή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρακμή

Structure: παρακμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the point at which the prime is past, abatement

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

  • διὸ καὶ δῆλόν ἐστιν οὐ παρακμῇ τινι δι’ ἡλικίαν τὸ θυμοειδὲσ οὐδ’ αὐτομάτωσ ἀπομαραινόμενον, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ λόγων τινῶν χρηστῶν θεραπευόμενον. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 1 2:3)
  • οἰόμενοσ τῷ δοκοῦντι καταλύειν Ἀννίβαν χρόνῳ πρότερον ἐκτριβεῖσαν ὑπ’ ἐκείνου λήσεσθαι τὴν Ἰταλίαν, καὶ τὸν Φάβιον ἀεὶ τῆσ ἀσφαλείασ ἐχόμενον οὐ καλῶσ ἔχειν ἰᾶσθαι τὸ νόσημα τῆσ πατρίδοσ, περιμένοντα τῇ ῥώμῃ μαραινομένῃ συναποσβῆναι τὸν πόλεμον, ὥσπερ ἰατρῶν τοὺσ ἀτόλμουσ καὶ δειλοὺσ πρὸσ τὰ βοηθήματα, τῆσ νόσου παρακμὴν τὴν τῆσ δυνάμεωσ ἐξανάλωσιν ἡγουμένουσ· (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 24 2:1)

Similar forms

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

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