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πεῖσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεῖσις πείσεως

Structure: πεισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. persuasion

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

  • μακροῦ γε δεῖ σε καὶ σοφοῦ λόγου, ὅτῳ με πείσεισ μὴ φίλουσ κατακτανεῖν, ἵππων ἐρασθείσ, ὧν ἕκατι συμμάχουσ τοὺσ σοὺσ φονεύεισ, πόλλ’ ἐπισκήπτων μολεῖν. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:4)
  • τὸ δ’ ἀξίωμα, κἂν κακῶσ λέγῃ, τὸ σὸν πείσει· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:24)
  • οὐ γὰρ πείσεισ, οὐδ’ ἢν πείσῃσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, pnigos2)
  • τίνα δὲ καὶ δικαστὴν ἐθέλεισ γενέσθαι, ὅντινα μὴ σὺ δωροδοκήσασ, οἱᾶ πολλὰ ποιεῖτε, ἄδικα πείσεισ ὑπὲρ σοῦ ψηφίσασθαι; (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 9:4)
  • καί τι πείσει; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 4:2)
  • γεγραμμέναι δὲ ἐπὶ κλίνησ ὑπὲρ ταύτασ Δηινόμη τε καὶ Μητιόχη καὶ Πεῖσίσ ἐστι καὶ Κλεοδίκη· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 3:1)
  • φλόγωσισ γὰρ ἦν καὶ πεῖσισ ἰνίου καὶ τῆσ διανοίασ παραλλαγή· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 293:1)

Synonyms

  1. persuasion

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