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περίπηξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίπηξις περίπηξεως

Structure: περιπηξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a congealing 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

  • ἡ μὲν οὖν Τάττα ἁλοπήγιόν ἐστιν αὐτοφυέσ, οὕτω δὲ περιπήττεται ῥᾳδίωσ τὸ ὕδωρ παντὶ τῷ βαπτισθέντι εἰσ αὐτὸ ὥστε στεφάνουσ ἁλῶν ἀνέλκουσιν, ἐπειδὰν καθῶσι κύκλον σχοίνινον, τά τε ὄρνεα ἁλίσκεται τὰ προσαψάμενα τῷ πτερώματι τοῦ ὕδατοσ παραχρῆμα πίπτοντα διὰ τὴν περίπηξιν τῶν ἁλῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 5 5:2)

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

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