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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

  • καὶ ὁ Ξενοφῶν θαυμάσασ ὅ τι τὸ ἴσχον εἰή τὴν πορείαν καὶ ταχὺ ἀκούων τὴν παρεγγύην, ἐλαύνει ᾗ τάχιστα. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 15:1)
  • "Ὅθεν δὴ πᾶσι χρησίμησ οὔσησ τοῖσ ᾠκειωμένοισ φυσιολογίᾳ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ὁδοῦ, παρεγγυῶν τὸ συνεχὲσ ἐνέργημα ἐν φυσιολογίᾳ καὶ τοιούτῳ μάλιστα ἐγγαληνίζων τῷ βίῳ ἐποίησά σοι καὶ τοιαύτην τινὰ ἐπιτομὴν καὶ στοιχείωσιν τῶν ὅλων δοξῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 37:1)

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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