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πεταλισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεταλισμός πεταλισμοῦ

Structure: πεταλισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: as if from petali/zw

Sense

  1. petalism, written upon olive-leaves.

Declension

Second 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

  • περὶ τοῦ νομοθετηθέντοσ ἐν Συρακούσαισ πεταλισμοῦ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, 30)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Ἀθηναῖοι τοῦτο τὸ γένοσ τῆσ νομοθεσίασ ὠνόμασαν ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβεβηκότοσ ὀστρακισμόν, οἱ δὲ Συρακόσιοι πεταλισμόν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 81 43:3)
  • διόπερ οἱ Συρακόσιοι μεταγνόντεσ τὸν περὶ τοῦ πεταλισμοῦ νόμον κατέλυσαν, ὀλίγον χρόνον αὐτῷ χρησάμενοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 81 47:1)

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

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