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πολυφορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυφορία

Structure: πολυφορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polufo/ros

Sense

  1. productiveness

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

  • ὅταν δὲ καιρὸσ ᾖ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου ἤδη γλυκαίνεσθαι τὰσ σταφυλάσ, φυλλορροοῦσα διδάσκει ἑαυτὴν ψιλοῦν καὶ πεπαίνειν τὴν ὀπώραν, διὰ πολυφορίαν δὲ τοὺσ μὲν πέπονασ δεικνύουσα βότρυσ, τοὺσ δὲ ἔτι ὠμοτέρουσ φέρουσα, διδάσκει τρυγᾶν ἑαυτήν, ὥσπερ τὰ σῦκα συκάζουσι, τὸ ὀργῶν ἀεί. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. productiveness

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

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