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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παράληψις παραλήψει παραλήψεις
Genitive παραλήψεως παραλήψοιν παραλήψεων
Dative παραλήψει παραλήψοιν παραλήψεσιν*
Accusative παράληψιν παραλήψει παραλήψεις
Vocative παράληψι παραλήψει παραλήψεις

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

  • τῶν δὲ ἰδίᾳ ἑκατέρου καλῶν πρῶτόν ἐστι Νομᾷ μὲν ἡ παράληψισ τῆσ βασιλείασ, Λυκούργῳ δὲ ἡ παράδοσισ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 1 1:2)
  • θερμαυστρίσ, ἑκατερίδεσ, σκοπόσ, χεὶρ καταπρηνήσ, χεὶρ σιμή, διποδισμόσ, ξύλου παράληψισ, ἐπαγκωνισμόσ, καλαθίσκοσ, στρόβιλοσ, καὶ τελεσιὰσ δ’ ἐστὶν ὄρχησισ καλουμένη · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 3:3)
  • Περδίκκου παράληψισ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν βασιλείαν ἐπιμελείασ καὶ διαίρεσισ τῶν σατραπειῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter pr5)
  • παράληψισ τῶν σατραπειῶν ὑπὸ τῶν μεμερισμένων αὐτάσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter pr19)
  • Ἀντιπάτρου θάνατοσ καὶ τῆσ βασιλικῆσ δυνάμεωσ παράληψισ ὑπὸ Πολυπέρχοντοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter pr57)

Synonyms

  1. a receiving from another

  2. the taking of a town

Related

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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