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πάρισος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάρισος πάρισον

Structure: παρις (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. almost equal, evenly balanced

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τό τε γὰρ κῶλον τὸ δεύτερον τῷ κώλῳ πάρισον καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων τῷ μὲν ἀπέλαυον τὸ ἠμέλουν ἀντίθετον, τῷ δὲ ἰδίων τὸ ἀλλοτρίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 1:5)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ δεύτερον τῷ μὲν καλῶσ τὸ κακῶσ ἀντίστροφον, τῷ δὲ ἀκούειν τὸ ἀποθνῄσκειν πάρισον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:2)
  • οὐκοῦν τὸ γραμμάτων καὶ συνθημάτων πάρισον καὶ τὸ πολλῶν καὶ ὀλίγων καὶ κοινῶν καὶ ἰδίων ἀντίθετα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:6)
  • τρία δὲ γένη κιχλῶν Ἀριστοτέλησ εἶναι ἱστορεῖ, ὧν τὴν πρώτην καὶ μεγίστην κίσσῃ πάρισον εἶναι, ἣν καὶ καλεῖσθαι ἰξοφάγον, ἐπειδὴ ἰξὸν ἐσθίει τὴν δὲ τῷ κοσσύφῳ ἴσην, ἣν ὀνομάζεσθαι τριχάδα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 689)
  • ἔστιν δὲ ἅμα πάντα ἔχειν ταὐτό, καὶ ἀντίθεσιν εἶναι τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ πάρισον καὶ ὁμοιοτέλευτον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 9:8)
  • πάρισόν τε καὶ ἐφάμιλλον τοῖσ πρὸ αὐτοῦ γένηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 97)

Synonyms

  1. almost equal

Related

Similar forms

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

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