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περαίωσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: peraiōsis

Principal Part: περαίωσις περαίωσεως

Structure: περαιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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)
  • ἀρχηγὸς δὲ δοκεῖ μάλιστα τῆς περαιώσεως τῆς εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν γενέσθαι Λεοννόριος. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 5 1:4)
  • 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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