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παραχώρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραχώρησις παραχώρησεως

Structure: παραχωρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from paraxwre/w

Sense

  1. a giving way, a retiring from

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

  • οὐ χαίρων παραχωρήσεισ τῷ δεδωκότι; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 24:5)
  • οὐ παραχωρήσεισ τῷ κρείσσονι; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 107:7)
  • τούτου δὲ κινουμένου, καὶ ποτὲ μὲν κατὰ κορυφὴν ἡμῖν γινομένου ποτὲ δὲ ὑπὸ γῆσ ὄντοσ, καὶ οἱ ἀρκτικοὶ συμμεταβάλλουσι, ποτὲ δὲ συνεκλείπουσι κατὰ τὰσ τοιαύτασ παραχωρήσεισ, ὥστε οὐκ ἂν εἰδείησ ὅπου ἐστὶ τὸ ἀρκτικὸν κλίμα, οὐδ’ εἰ ἀρχὴν ἐστίν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 17:18)

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

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