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περιτροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιτροπή

Structure: περιτροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: peritre/pw

Sense

  1. a turning round, revolution, circuit
  2. a turning about, changing, by turns

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

  • τῶν γάρ τόπων ἐπισφαλῶν ὄντων ἐκείνοισ οὔτε τόνον ἕξειν τὰσ πληγὰσ οὔτε ῥώμην τὸν συνασπισμόν, ἐν περιτροπῇ καὶ σάλῳ τῶν σωμάτων ὄντων διὰ τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 20 6:1)
  • "δεῖ γὰρ τούτοισ συνάψαι τὸν περὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν λόγον, οὐκ οὔσησ ἄλλησ ἀρχῆσ αὐτῶν ἀμείνονοσ οὐδ’ ἀναφορᾶσ, οὐδ’ ἄλλου τινὸσ ἕνεκεν τῆσ φυσικῆσ θεωρίασ παραληπτῆσ οὔσησ ἢ πρὸσ τὴν περὶ ἀγαθῶν ἢ κακῶν διάστασιν" γίγνεται τοίνυν ἅμα πρόσω καὶ ὀπίσω τῶν ἠθικῶν ὁ φυσικὸσ λόγοσ κατὰ Χρύσιππον μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ ἄποροσ ἡ περιτροπὴ τῆσ τάξεωσ, εἰ μετὰ ταῦτα τακτέον ἐκεῖνον, ὧν καταλαβεῖν οὐδὲν ἐκείνου χωρὶσ ἔστιν· (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 9 10:1)
  • Μετεξετέροισι δὲ πυρετοὶ ἀμαυροὶ ἐγκαταλείπονται, καί πη καὶ φλεγμασίαι σμικραὶ, καὶ γλῶσσα ξηρή· ἄνικμοι, Ῥιγώδεεσ, νωθροὶ, διαλελυμένοι, οἷσι ἐσ μαρασμὸν ἡ περιτροπή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 182)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ ἡ μὲν σκυτάλησ ἢ ὑπέρου ἢ ὅτου δὴ λέγεται περιτροπὴ πρὸσ ταύτην τὴν ἐπίταξιν οὐδὲν ἂν λέγοι, τυφλοῦ δὲ παρακέλευσισ ἂν καλοῖτο δικαιότερον· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 408:7)
  • ταῦτα μὲν δὴ τοῖσι ἅπασι ἦν ἐξαραιρημένα, τάδε δὲ ἐν περιτροπῇ ἐκαρποῦντο καὶ οὐδαμὰ ὡυτοί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 168 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a turning round

  2. a turning about

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

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