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πῆξις?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: pēxis

Principal Part: πῆξις πῆξεως

Structure: πηξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: πήγνυμι

Sense

  1. a fixing, constructing
  2. congelation

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πῆξις πήξει πήξεις
Genitive πήξεως πήξοιν πήξεων
Dative πήξει πήξοιν πήξεσι(ν)
Accusative πῆξιν πήξει πήξεις
Vocative πῆξι πήξει πήξεις

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

  • βιαιότατον ἡ πῆξις οὖσα πάθος μέν ἐστιν ὕδατος· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 112)
  • τὸ πρώτως ψυχρόν ἔστι δ ὑπερβολὴ ψύξεως πῆξις, πῆξις δ εἰς ἀγνωσίαν τελευτᾷ καὶ λίθωσιν, ὅταν, παντάπασι τοῦ ψυχροῦ κρατήσαντος, ἐκπαγῇ μὲν τὸ ὑγρὸν ἐκθλιβῇ δὲ τὸ θερμόν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 19 3:1)
  • καὶ ῥίγους ἡ μὲν παρὰ φύσιν τοῦ ζῴου τῆς ὑγρότητος πῆξις λύπη: (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 128:3)

Synonyms

  1. a fixing

Similar forms

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

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