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περιτομή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιτομή περιτομῆς

Structure: περιτομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: perite/mnw

Sense

  1. circular incision
  2. circumcision
  3. one who is circumcised

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

  • οἱ δὲ διαδεξάμενοι χρόνουσ μέν τινασ ἐν τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ διέμενον δικαιοπραγοῦντεσ καὶ θεοσεβεῖσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ὄντεσ, ἔπειτ’ ἐφισταμένων ἐπὶ τὴν ἱερωσύνην τὸ μὲν πρῶτον δεισιδαιμόνων, ἔπειτα τυραννικῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐκ μὲν τῆσ δεισιδαιμονίασ αἱ τῶν βρωμάτων ἀποσχέσεισ, ὧνπερ καὶ νῦν ἔθοσ ἐστὶν αὐτοῖσ ἀπέχεσθαι, καὶ [αἱ] περιτομαὶ καὶ αἱ ἐκτομαὶ καὶ εἴ τινα τοιαῦτα ἐνομίσθη, ἐκ δὲ τῶν τυραννίδων τὰ λῃστήρια. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 74:1)

Synonyms

  1. circumcision

  2. one who is circumcised

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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