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πολυσαρκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυσαρκία

Structure: πολυσαρκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/sarkos

Sense

  1. fleshiness, plumpness

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

  • "ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ πολυσαρκίᾳ κεχρημένοι καὶ ὄγκῳ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον ἄτεκνοι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 6:4)

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

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