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περιήχησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: periēchēsis

Principal Part: περιήχησις περιήχησεως

Structure: περιηχησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a resounding, echoing

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

  • Ἀρχέλαος δὲ τῷ κονιορτῷ τῆς ἐλάσεως ὅπερ ἦν τεκμηράμενος, Ὁρτήσιον μὲν εἰά χαίρειν, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐπιστρέψας ὡρ´μησεν ὅθεν ὁ Σύλλας πρός τὸ δεξιόν, ὡς ἔρημον ἄρχοντος αἱρήσων, ἅμα δὲ καὶ Μουρήνᾳ Ταξίλης ἐπῆγε τοὺς χαλκάσπιδας, ὥστε τῆς κραυγῆς διχόθεν φερομένης καὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ἀνταποδιδόντων τὴν περιήχησιν, ἐπιστήσαντα τὸν Σύλλαν διαπορεῖν ὁποτέρωσε χρὴ προσγενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 19 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a resounding

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

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