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περιδίνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιδίνησις περιδίνησεως

Structure: περιδινησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from peridine/w

Sense

  1. a whirling round

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

  • ὁπότε δὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀριστερῶν ἐπελαύνοιεν, τότε δὴ πᾶσ ὁ ἀκροβολισμὸσ ἀρίδηλοσ γίγνεται, καὶ τῶν θυρεῶν ἡ προβολή, καὶ ἡ ἐκ τῆσ ἀριστερᾶσ χειρὸσ ἐσ τὴν δεξιὰν ὕφεσισ τῶν ἀκοντίων ὀξεῖα, καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ ὅπωσ αὐτὰ ὑπολαβοῦσα καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ περιενεγκοῦσα ὥσπερ ἐν τροχοῦ περιδινήσει ὁμοῦ μὲν ἐξηκόντισεν, ὁμοῦ δὲ ὑπέλαβεν τὸ λειφθέν, καὶ τοῦτο αὖ ὑπερενεγκοῦσα ἐξηκόντισεν. (Arrian, chapter 38 5:1)
  • τῇ σφοδρᾷ δὲ περιδινήσει συνεστάναι καὶ ἀνεθέντα κατενεχθήσεσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. g'. ANACAGORAS 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. a whirling round

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

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