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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

  • ἀντίθεσισ μὲν οὖν τὸ τοιοῦτον ἐστίν, παρίσωσισ δ’ ἐὰν ἴσα τὰ κῶλα, παρομοίωσισ δὲ ἐὰν ὅμοια τὰ ἔσχατα ἔχῃ ἑκάτερον τὸ κῶλον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 9:1)
  • ὅσῳ δ’ ἂν πλείω ἔχῃ, τοσούτῳ ἀστειότερον φαίνεται, οἱο͂ν εἰ καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα μεταφορὰ εἰή καὶ μεταφορὰ τοιαδὶ καὶ ἀντίθεσισ καὶ παρίσωσισ, καὶ ἔχοι ἐνέργειαν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 11 10:4)

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

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