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ποίκιλσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποίκιλσις ποίκιλσεως

Structure: ποικιλσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: poiki/llw

Sense

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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ οὐδ’ ἐκεῖνα φοβητέα, δείσαντα τὴν δόξασαν ἂν γίγνεσθαι σμικρολογίαν, ἄν τισ προστάττῃ πάντα ὁπόσ’ ἂν σκεύη κτῶνται, μηδὲν ἄμετρον αὐτῶν ἐᾶν εἶναι, καὶ κοινῷ λόγῳ νομίσαντα πρὸσ πάντα εἶναι χρησίμουσ τὰσ τῶν ἀριθμῶν διανομὰσ καὶ ποικίλσεισ, ὅσα τε αὐτοὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖσ ποικίλλονται καὶ ὅσα ἐν μήκεσι καὶ ἐν βάθεσι ποικίλματα, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν φθόγγοισ καὶ κινήσεσι ταῖσ τε κατὰ τὴν εὐθυπορίαν τῆσ ἄνω καὶ κάτω φορᾶσ καὶ τῆσ κύκλῳ περιφορᾶσ· (Plato, Laws, book 5 145:1)

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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