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περιέλασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιέλασις περιέλασεως

Structure: περιελασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from perielau/nw

Sense

  1. a place for driving round, a roadway

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἕλξεισ ἢ ἐπιπηδήσεισ ποιοῦσι ταῖσ ἀπορροαῖσ, οἱ μὲν ἐμπλοκὰσ αὐτῶν οἱ δὲ πληγὰσ οἱ δ’ ὤσεισ τινὰσ καὶ περιελάσεισ ὑποτιθέμενοι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 19 7:3)
  • οἱ μὲν ἱππεῖσ οἱ παρὰ ἀμφότερα τεταγμένοι τὰ κέρατα προειδότεσ, ἐν οἷσ ἐπλεονέκτουν αὐτοὶ τῶν πολεμίων, εἰσ ταῦτα κατέφευγον, Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν εἰσ τὴν ἐκ χειρὸσ καὶ σταδιαίαν μάχην, τὸ δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἱππικὸν εἰσ τὰσ περιελάσεισ καὶ τοὺσ ἐξελιγμούσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 2 1:2)
  • τὸ μέσον δὲ τῶν οἰκημάτων ἔλιπον τεθρίππῳ περιέλασιν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 179 4:2)

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

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