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παρέκβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρέκβασις παρέκβασεως

Structure: παρεκβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a deviation 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

  • ἄλλασ ἄλλοτε παρεκβάσεισ καὶ καινοτομίασ ἀνευρίσκων οὐδὲν ἴχνοσ ἐμφανὲσ οὐδ’ ἐναργὲσ ἀπολέλοιπε τῆσ φύσεωσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 4:1)
  • ὁ δὲ δεσπότησ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ αὐτοκρατὴσ λόγοσ ἄλλασ ἄλλοτε παρεκβάσεισ καὶ καινοτομίασ ἀνευρίσκων οὐδὲν ἴχνοσ ἐμφανὲσ οὐδ’ ἐναργὲσ ἀπολέλοιπε τῆσ φύσεωσ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 11:1)
  • αἱ δὲ πολιτεῖαι πᾶσαι ἐν οἰκείοισ συνυπάρχουσι, καὶ αἱ ὀρθαὶ καὶ αἱ παρεκβάσεισ ἔστι γὰρ τὸ αὐτὸ ὥσπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἁρμονιῶν καὶ τῶν ἐν ταῖσ πολιτείαισ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 163:1)
  • πολιτείασ δ’ ἐστὶν εἴδη τρία, ἴσαι δὲ καὶ παρεκβάσεισ, οἱο͂ν φθοραὶ τούτων. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 98:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πλεῖστα τῶν ἐπιτιμηθέντων ἂν διὰ τὰσ παρεκβάσεισ κοινὰ τυγχάνει πάσαισ ὄντα ταῖσ εἰρημέναισ πολιτείαισ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 282:1)

Synonyms

  1. a deviation from

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

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