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πιθανότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιθανότης πιθανότητος

Structure: πιθανοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. persuasiveness

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

  • ταχὺ δὲ τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐπείθετο ταῖσ τῶν λεγομένων πρὸσ χάριν αὐτοῖσ πιθανότησιν ἀπατώμενοι. (Flavius Josephus, 180:3)
  • "θεμένῳ δὲ τὸ δόγμα καὶ καλλωπισαμένῳ ταῖσ πρώταισ πιθανότησιν αὐτοῦ προσεκποτέον ἐστὶ τὸ δυσχερέσ, ἢ δεικτέον ὅπωσ ἄποια σώματα παντοδαπὰσ ποιότητασ αὐτῷ μόνῳ τῷ συνελθεῖν παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 820)
  • τοιαύταισ ἐστὶ πιθανότησιν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 12 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. persuasiveness

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

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