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πικρότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πικρότης πικρότητος

Structure: πικροτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from pikro/s

Sense

  1. pungency, bitterness
  2. bitterness, cruelty

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἃσ λέγουσιν ἔνιοι τῷ σώματι τὴν ἀσιτίαν δριμύτητασ ἐγγεννᾶν καὶ πικρότητασ εἴ τισ δέδιεν ἢ καθάπερ οἱ παῖδεσ δεινὸν ἡγεῖται πρὸ τοῦ πυρέττειν μὴ παρατίθεσθαι τράπεζαν ἐν ὑποψίᾳ γεγονώσ, εὐάρμοστον ἡ ὑδροποσία μεθόριον. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. pungency

  2. bitterness

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

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