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παρέκχυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρέκχυσις παρέκχυσεως

Structure: παρεκχυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from parekxe/w

Sense

  1. an overflowing

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

  • εἰκὸσ μὲν γὰρ οὕτωσ ἔχειν ὡσ ὁ Πολύβιόσ φησιν, εἰκὸσ δὲ καὶ τῶν φλεβῶν τινασ τῶν πηγαίων νοτισθείσασ ἔξωθεν χαυνοῦσθαι καὶ παρέκχυσιν εἰσ τὰ πλάγια μᾶλλον διδόναι τοῖσ ὕδασιν ἢ ἀναθλίβειν κατὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον ῥεῖθρον εἰσ τὴν κρήνην· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 14:13)
  • ἡ δὲ βοήθεια αὕτη, τὴν μὲν πολλὴν παρέκχυσιν ἐμφράξει κωλύειν, τὴν δὲ πλήρωσιν ἣν ἡ χοῦσ ἐργάζεται, τοὐναντίον ἀνακαθάρσει τῶν διωρύγων καὶ ἐξανοίξει τῶν στομάτων. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. an overflowing

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

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