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περιωπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιωπή

Structure: περιωπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: w)/y

Sense

  1. a place commanding a wide view, bird's-eye view
  2. circumspection, caution

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

  • Γλωσσηματικὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἀπηρχαιωμένα καὶ δυσείκαστα τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ἐστι τό τε ἀκραιφνέσ καὶ ὁ ἐπιλογισμόσ καὶ ἡ περιωπή καὶ ἡ ἀνακωχή καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 31)
  • ἧστο γὰρ ἐκτὸσ ἀγῶνοσ ὑπέρτατοσ ἐν περιωπῇ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 41:4)

Synonyms

  1. circumspection

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

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