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πῆξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῆξις πῆξεως

Structure: πηξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ph/gnumi

Sense

  1. a fixing, constructing
  2. congelation

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

  • "ἀλλ’ εἰσ σταυρὸν καθηλώσεισ ἢ σκόλοπι πήξεισ; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:16)
  • "ἀλλ’ εἰσ σταυρὸν καθηλώσεισ ἢ σκόλοπι πήξεισ; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 6:13)
  • ὁ λίθοσ φύσει σκληρόσ, ὁ κρύσταλλοσ φύσει ψυχρόσ ἐστιν, οὐκ ἔξωθεν εἰκῆ ταύτασ τὰσ ἀντιτυπίασ ἐπιφέροντεσ καὶ τὰσ πήξεισ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 2 2:1)
  • νέφη γὰρ καὶ ὁμίχλαι καὶ κνηκίδεσ οὐ πήξεισ εἰσὶν ἀλλὰ συστάσεισ καὶ παχύτητεσ ἀέροσ διεροῦ καὶ ἀτμώδουσ ὁ δ’ ἄνικμοσ καὶ ξηρὸσ οὐδ’ ἄχρι ταύτησ τὴν κατάψυξιν ἐνδέχεται τῆσ μεταβολῆσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 14 13:3)
  • καὶ τοίνυν τὴν τῶν ὁλοσχίστων σκεπασμάτων θεραπείαν δερματουργικὴν καὶ τὰσ τῶν στεγασμάτων, ὅσαι τε ἐν οἰκοδομικῇ καὶ ὅλῃ τεκτονικῇ καὶ ἐν ἄλλαισ τέχναισ ῥευμάτων στεκτικαὶ γίγνονται, συμπάσασ ἀφείλομεν, ὅσαι τε περὶ τὰσ κλοπὰσ καὶ τὰσ βίᾳ πράξεισ διακωλυτικὰ ἔργα παρέχονται τέχναι φραγμάτων, περί τε γένεσιν ἐπιθηματουργίασ οὖσαι καὶ τὰσ τῶν θυρωμάτων πήξεισ, γομφωτικῆσ ἀπονεμηθεῖσαι μόρια τέχνησ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 141:4)

Synonyms

  1. a fixing

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

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