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περικάκησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: perikakēsis

Principal Part: περικάκησις περικάκησεως

Structure: περικακησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. extreme ill-luck

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

  • τότε προδήλου τῆς αἰκίας διὰ τὴν περικάκησιν ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν τοῖς ἡγεμόσιν ὑπαρχούσης, ἔκριναν οἱ περὶ τὸν Αὐτάριτον καὶ Ζάρζαν καὶ Σπένδιον ἐγχειρίζειν ἑαυτοὺς τοῖς πολεμίοις καὶ διαλαλεῖν περὶ διαλύσεως Ἀμίλκᾳ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 85 2:1)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν πολλαὶ τῶν γυναικῶν, ἡδέως ὁρῶσαι τὴν δυσθυμίαν καὶ περικάκησιν αὐτῆς, ἀπεσιώπων: (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 29 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. extreme ill-luck

Similar forms

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

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