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περαίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περαίωσις περαίωσεως

Structure: περαιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: peraio/w

Sense

  1. a carrying over

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

  • ἱππεῖσ, οἳ κομισθέντεσ ἄχρι Θουρίων τήν ἐκεῖθεν περαίωσιν ὑπὸ Καρχηδονίων πολλαῖσ ναυσὶ κατεχομένησ τῆσ θαλάττησ ἄπορον ὁρῶντεσ, ὡσ ἦν ἀνάγκη καιρὸν περιμένοντασ ἀτρεμεῖν αὐτόθι, πρὸσ κάλλιστον ἔργον ἀπεχρήσαντο τῇ σχολῇ. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 16 2:1)
  • διὸ καὶ εὐπετέστερον ἐκ τῆσ Σηστοῦ διαίρουσι παραλεξάμενοι μικρὸν ἐπὶ τὸν τῆσ Ἡροῦσ πύργον, κἀκεῖθεν ἀφιέντεσ τὰ πλοῖα συμπράττοντοσ τοῦ ῥοῦ πρὸσ τὴν περαίωσιν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 36:12)
  • πολύπλανον δὲ καὶ ταχὺ τὸ ἔθνοσ πρὸσ ἀπαναστάσεισ, ηὐξήθη τε ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ ἀθρόαν ἔλαβε τὴν ἔκλειψιν καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν τῶν Αἰολέων καὶ τῶν Ιὤνων περαίωσιν εἰσ τὴν Ἀσίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 3 6:8)

Synonyms

  1. a carrying over

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

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