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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

  • εἴ γε μὴ ὡσ ἐπαοιδῶν αὐτῶν ἠκούομεν, ὅτι ὁ κόσμοσ οὗτοσ μία πόλισ ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ οὐσία, ἐξ ἧσ δεδημιούργηται, μία καὶ ἀνάγκη περίοδόν τινα εἶναι καὶ παραχώρησιν ἄλλων ἄλλοισ καὶ τὰ μὲν διαλύεσθαι, τὰ δ’ ἐπιγίνεσθαι, τὰ μὲν μένειν ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ, τὰ δὲ κινεῖσθαι. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 10:1)

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

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