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παράληψις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράληψις παράληψεως

Structure: παραληψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: paralamba/nw

Sense

  1. a receiving from another, succession to
  2. the taking of a town

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

  • τοῦτο δὲ πρᾶξαι τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Περσῶν, ὅπωσ ὁ μὲν Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰσ περισπασμοὺσ ἀξιολόγουσ καὶ παραλήψεισ ἐπιφανεστάτων πόλεων καὶ θησαυρῶν μεγάλων ἐμπεσὼν ἐν ἀσχολίαισ ὑπάρχῃ, ὁ δὲ Δαρεῖοσ τῇ φυγῇ λαμβάνῃ χρόνον εἰσ τὴν τοῦ πολέμου παρασκευήν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 65 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a receiving from another

  2. the taking of a town

Related

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

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