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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

  • εἶπεν "ἔχει τινὰσ πιθανότητασ· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 171)
  • πρὸσ τοὺσ σοφιστικοὺσ λόγουσ τὰ λογικὰ καὶ τὴν ἐν τούτοισ γυμνασίαν καὶ τριβήν, πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν πραγμάτων πιθανότητασ τὰσ προλήψεισ ἐναργεῖσ ἐσμηγμένασ καὶ προχείρουσ ἔχειν δεῖ. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 6:1)
  • διαστρέφεσθαι δὲ τὸ λογικὸν ζῷον, ποτὲ μὲν διὰ τὰσ τῶν ἔξωθεν πραγματειῶν πιθανότητασ, ποτὲ δὲ διὰ τὴν κατήχησιν τῶν συνόντων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 89:6)
  • ἐδείκνυσαν οὖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων τοῖσ πείθουσιν ἴσασ τὰσ πιθανότητασ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 19:1)
  • περὶ δὲ Κίμβρων τὰ μὲν οὐκ εὖ λέγεται, τὰ δ’ ἔχει πιθανότητασ οὐ μετρίασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 2 2:1)

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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