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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

  • μὴ πεσεῖν ἡ κίνησισ αὐτὴ καὶ τὸ ῥοιζῶδεσ τῆσ περιαγωγῆσ, ὥσπερ ὅσα ταῖσ σφενδόναισ ἐντεθέντα τῆσ καταφορᾶσ κώλυσιν ἴσχει τὴν κύκλῳ περιδίνησιν ἄγει γὰρ ἕκαστον ἡ κατὰ φύσιν κίνησισ, ἂν ὑπ’ ἄλλου μηδενὸσ ἀποστρέφηται. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 6 1:9)

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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