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περικοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περικοπή

Structure: περικοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from periko/ptw

Sense

  1. a cutting all round, mutilation, trepanning
  2. the outline or general form
  3. a section or short passage, a portion of scripture

Declension

First 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

  • ἐν δὲ τούτῳ δούλουσ τινὰσ καὶ μετοίκουσ προήγαγεν Ἀνδροκλῆσ ὁ δημαγωγὸσ ἄλλων τε ἀγαλμάτων περικοπὰσ καὶ μυστηρίων παρ’ οἶνον ἀπομιμήσεισ τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου καὶ τῶν φίλων κατηγοροῦντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the outline or general form

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

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