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παρατροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρατροπή

Structure: παρατροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a turning away, means of averting
  2. a digression

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

  • ὧν ἁμαρτανομένων παρατροπαὶ καὶ ὑπερχύσεισ εἰσὶν αἱ λεγόμεναι τυραννίδεσ καὶ δυναστεῖαι καὶ ὀχλοκρατίαι· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἐκβολαὶ καὶ παρατροπαὶ τῆσ ἱστορίασ μάλιστα τοῖσ μύθοισ δίδονται καὶ ταῖσ ἀρχαιολογίαισ, ἔτι δὲ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπαίνουσ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 3 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a turning away

  2. a digression

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

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