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πολυσιτία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: polysitia

Principal Part: πολυσιτία

Structure: πολυσιτι (Stem) + α (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

  • ἔτι οἱ μὲν βουλόμενοι τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας κατορθοῦν ὀλιγοσιτίαις καὶ ὀλιγοποσίαις χρῶνται καθάπερ οἱ νοσοῦντες, πολυποσίαις δὲ καὶ πολυσιτίαις οὐκ ἔστιν εὐφραινόμενον μανθάνειν: (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 16:1)

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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