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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

  • εἰ αἱ τῶν πραγμάτων πιθανότητεσ, καθ’ ἃσ φαίνεταί τινα ἀγαθὰ οὐκ ὄντα, ἐκεῖ τὴν βοήθειαν ζητῶμεν· (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 3:1)
  • ὅτι νὴ Δία πολλάκισ ἐξίστασαι ὑπὸ τῶν φαντασιῶν καὶ ταράττῃ καὶ ἡττῶσίν σε αἱ πιθανότητεσ αὐτῶν· (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 6:2)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἀμφότεροι κατὰ τὸν εἰκότα λόγον πεποίηνται τὴν ἐπιχείρησιν, καὶ διότι πλείουσ εἰσὶ πιθανότητεσ ἐν τῇ κατ’ Ἀριστοτέλην ἱστορίᾳ, δοκῶ, πᾶσ ἄν τισ ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων ὁμολογήσειεν· (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 7 4:1)

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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