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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

  • ἄλλοσ δὲ τούτῳ πάρισοσ ῥέων ἐκ τῆσ καλουμένησ Φαναροίασ τὸ αὐτὸ διέξεισι πεδίον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 30:3)
  • ἐπὶ ποσὸν μὲν ὁ κίνδυνοσ πάρισοσ ἦν μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα καὶ ταῖσ δυσχωρίαισ εἴξαντεσ οἱ παρὰ τοῦ Φιλίππου καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν πολεμίων ἐτράπησαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 14 3:1)
  • πάντῃ δὲ τούτων συμπλοκῆσ ἁθρόωσ καὶ κατ’ ἄνδρα γινομένησ ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον πάρισοσ ἦν ὁ κίνδυνοσ οὕτωσ ὥστε τὰσ λοιπὰσ δυνάμεισ, καραδοκούσασ καθ’ ὁποτέρων ὁ κονιορτὸσ τραπήσεται, μὴ δύνασθαι συμβαλεῖν διὰ τὸ μένειν ἀμφοτέρουσ ἐπὶ πολὺ διακατέχοντασ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ τὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τόπον. (Polybius, Histories, book 11, chapter 13 2:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ προσεκβαλλομένη τῇ διὰ Βαβυλῶνοσ μέχρι τῆσ διὰ Θαψάκου εὐθείασ μεσημβρινῆσ ἴση ἂν ἦν πρὸσ αἴσθησιν ἢ πάρισόσ γε τῇ ἀπὸ Κασπίων πυλῶν εἰσ Θάψακον, ὥστε τῇ ὑπεροχῇ ἐγίνετ’ ἂν ἀνατολικωτέρα ἡ Βαβυλὼν τῆσ Θαψάκου, ᾗ ὑπερέχει ἡ ἐκ Κασπίων πυλῶν εἰσ Θάψακον τῆσ ἐκ τῶν Καρμανίων ὁρ́ων εἰσ Βαβυλῶνα. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 54:2)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγεθοσ πάρισόσ πώσ ἐστιν εἰσ πλάτοσ καὶ μῆκοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. almost equal

Related

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

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