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πέσος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέσος πέσεος

Structure: πεσο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = ptw=ma II, pl. pe/sea Eur.

Sense

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

  • ἄγετε τὸν ἁβρὸν δήποτ’ ἐν Τροίᾳ πόδα, νῦν δ’ ὄντα δοῦλον, στιβάδα πρὸσ χαμαιπετῆ πέτρινά τε κρήδεμν’, ὡσ πεσοῦσ’ ἀποφθαρῶ δακρύοισ καταξανθεῖσα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic26)
  • κεῖνοσ μὲν οὖν δέδωκε σὺν θεοῖσ δίκην αὐτόσ τε καὶ γῆ δορὶ πεσοῦσ’ Ἑλληνικῷ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode4)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ ἕβδομον ἦμαρ ἐπὶ Ζεὺσ θῆκε Κρονίων, τὴν μὲν ἔπειτα γυναῖκα βάλ’ Ἄρτεμισ ἰοχέαιρα, ἄντλῳ δ’ ἐνδούπησε πεσοῦσ’ ὡσ εἰναλίη κήξ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 59:15)

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

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