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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παραχώρησις παραχωρήσει παραχωρήσεις
Genitive παραχωρήσεως παραχωρήσοιν παραχωρήσεων
Dative παραχωρήσει παραχωρήσοιν παραχωρήσεσιν*
Accusative παραχώρησιν παραχωρήσει παραχωρήσεις
Vocative παραχώρησι παραχωρήσει παραχωρήσεις

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

  • ὃσ ἔφη δοκεῖν αὐτῷ καὶ δίκαιον καὶ συμφέρον ἔσεσθαι τῇ πόλει, πάντων εἶναι τὰ κοινὰ καὶ μὴ ὀλίγων, τῷ τε δήμῳ πείθοντι ὑπουργεῖν συνεβούλευεν, ἵνα χάρισ ἡ παραχώρησισ αὐτῶν γένηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 51 6:2)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο δὲ τὸ πρόσωπον ὀφείλεται παραχώρησισ, εὐπείθεια, εὐφημία, μηδέποτ’ ἀντιποιήσασθαί τινοσ πρὸσ [ἑ]αὐτὸν τῶν ἀπροαιρέτων, ἀλλ’ ἡδέωσ ἐκεῖνα προίεσθαι, ἵν’ ἐν τοῖσ προαιρετικοῖσ πλέον ἔχῃσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 8:1)

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

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