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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

  • ἤρξαντο δὲ τῆσ ἀποστάσεωσ οἱ καλούμενοι Οὐιεντανοὶ καὶ τοῖσ ἐλθοῦσι παρὰ τοῦ Τυλλίου πρεσβευταῖσ ἀπεκρίναντο μηδεμίαν εἶναί σφισι πρὸσ ἐκεῖνον μήθ’ ὑπὲρ ἡγεμονίασ παραχωρήσεωσ μήτε περὶ φιλίασ καὶ συμμαχίασ συνθήκην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 27 2:1)
  • ἢ μή ποτε ὡσ οὐκ ἀρκεῖ τὸ δανείσασθαι πρὸσ τὸ ἔτι ὀφείλειν, ἀλλὰ δεῖ προσεῖναι καὶ τὸ ἐπιμένειν ἐπὶ τοῦ δανείου καὶ μὴ διαλελύσθαι αὐτό, οὕτωσ οὐκ ἀρκεῖ πρὸσ τὸ δεῖν παραχωρεῖν τὸ ἐπιφερόμενον τὸ δεδωκέναι τὰ λήμματα, δεῖ δ’ ἐπιμένειν ἐπὶ τῆσ παραχωρήσεωσ αὐτῶν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 16:2)

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

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