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παρεγγύη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρεγγύη

Structure: παρεγγυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a word of command passed on

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

  • Τὸ μὲν ὅλον παύσασθαι αὐτοῖσ παρεγγύα ληροῦσι καὶ περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἐρίζουσι καὶ κέρατα φύουσιν ἀλλήλοισ καὶ κροκοδείλουσ ποιοῦσι καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἄπορα ἐρωτᾶν διδάσκουσι τὸν νοῦν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:6)
  • ἐπιτελέσαντοσ δὲ τούτου ταῦτα, ὁ τὰσ πίστισ ποιησάμενοσ τοῖσι φίλοισι παρεγγυᾷ τὸν ξεῖνον ἢ καὶ τὸν ἀστόν, ἢν πρὸσ ἀστὸν ποιέηται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 8 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a word of command passed on

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

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