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περίστασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίστασις περίστασεως

Structure: περιστασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: peristh=nai

Sense

  1. a standing round, a crowd standing round
  2. circumstances, a state of affairs, critical times
  3. outward pomp and circumstance

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative περίστασις περιστάσει περιστάσεις
Genitive περιστάσεως περιστάσοιν περιστάσεων
Dative περιστάσει περιστάσοιν περιστάσεσιν*
Accusative περίστασιν περιστάσει περιστάσεις
Vocative περίστασι περιστάσει περιστάσεις

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

  • τὸ δὲ πάντων παραδοξότατον, ἅμα πρὸσ δύο τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων λαλεῖν ἐντελῶσ, ἀποκρινομένουσ τε καὶ ταῖσ ὑποκειμέναισ περιστάσεσιν οἰκείωσ ὁμιλοῦντασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 56 6:2)
  • ὑπελάμβανον γὰρ τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν εὐθετωτέραν εἶναι τῆσ δημοκρατίασ ἐν ταῖσ τοιαύταισ περιστάσεσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 36 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. circumstances

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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