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πολυαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυαρχία

Structure: πολυαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the government of many

Declension

First 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

  • οὐδενὸσ δὲ ἧττον ἐπετάραττεν ἡ πολυαρχία τὰ πραττόμενα. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 18 5:1)
  • πολυαρχία γὰρ πρὸσ τῷ τοῖσ ὀξέωσ τι πράττειν ἀνάγκην ἔχουσιν ἐμπόδιον εἶναι καὶ βλάπτειν πέφυκε τοὺσ χρωμένουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 385:2)
  • συνελέγησαν δ’ ὅμωσ ἑκατὸν οὐ πλείουσ, καὶ διαβουλευομένων περὶ τῶν ἐν χερσὶν αἰφνίδιον αἴρεται βοὴ τοῦ συνεστηκότοσ αὐτοῖσ στρατιωτικοῦ στρατηγὸν αὐτοκράτορα κελευόντων τὴν βουλὴν ἑλέσθαι καὶ μὴ φθείρειν πολυαρχίᾳ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 285:1)

Synonyms

  1. the government of many

Related

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

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