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πολυσιτία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυσιτία

Structure: πολυσιτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. abundance of corn or food

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

  • τί γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἐμποδών, ὅπου ξύλα μὲν ναυπηγήσιμα ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ χώρᾳ ἐστί, χρημάτων δὲ πρόσοδοι ἐκ πολλῶν μὲν λιμένων, ἐκ πολλῶν δ’ ἐμπορίων, πολυανθρωπία γε μὴν διὰ τὴν πολυσιτίαν ὑπάρχει; (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 19:2)

Synonyms

  1. abundance of corn or food

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

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