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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

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

  • ὧν χάριν περιέσχεν αὐτοὺσ χαλεπὴ περίστασισ, καὶ ὧν ἐζήλουν τὰσ ἀγωγὰσ καὶ καθάπαν ἤθελον ἐξομοιοῦσθαι, τούτουσ πολεμίουσ καὶ τιμωρητὰσ ἔσχον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:16)
  • καὶ τὸ φρονεῖν πλουτεῦντι περίστασισ, ὄχλοσ, ἀνάγκη . (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 831)
  • λοιπὸν ὅταν ἐμπέσῃ περίστασισ, μέμνησο ὅτι ὁ θεόσ σε ὡσ ἀλείπτησ τραχεῖ νεανίσκῳ συμβέβληκεν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 1:2)
  • οἱο͂ν γάρ ἐστι χειμὼν πρὸσ σῦκον, τοιοῦτόν ἐστι πᾶσα ἡ ἀπὸ τῶν ὅλων περίστασισ πρὸσ τὰ κατ’ αὐτὴν ἀναιρούμενα. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 86:5)
  • Πλὴν ὅτι γε καὶ τὴν Ἀννίβου φύσιν οὐ μόνον ἡ τῶν φίλων παράθεσισ, ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων περίστασισ ἐβιάζετο καὶ μετετίθετο πολλάκισ, ἔκ τε τῶν προειρημένων καὶ τῶν λέγεσθαι μελλόντων ἐστὶ φανερόν. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 26 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. circumstances

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

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