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παρίσωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρίσωσις παρίσωσεως

Structure: παρισωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pariso/w

Sense

  1. an even balancing of the clauses

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

  • οἱ δὲ μειρακιώδεισ σχηματισμοὶ τῶν ἀντιθέτων τε καὶ παρομοιώσεων καὶ παρισώσεων, ἐν οἷσ οἱ περὶ τὸν Γοργίαν μάλιστα ἐπλεόνασαν, ἥκιστα τῷ χαρακτῆρι τούτῳ προσήκοντεσ, αὐστηρὰν ἔχοντι τὴν ἀγωγὴν καὶ τοῦ κομψοῦ πλεῖστον ἀφεστηκότι, τοιοῦτοί τινέσ εἰσι παρὰ τῷ συγγραφεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 171)
  • πέρα τοῦ δικανικοῦ τρόπου καὶ ἡ σύνθεσισ ἔχει τι τοῦ ποιητικοῦ τό τε σχῆμα τῆσ λέξεωσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν εἴληπται παρισώσεων καὶ παρομοιώσεων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2010)

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

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