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πρέσβευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρέσβευσις πρέσβευσεως

Structure: πρεσβευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • ποιητικὰ δὲ ἥ τε κωλύμη καὶ ἡ πρέσβευσισ καὶ ἡ καταβοή καὶ ἡ ἀχθηδών καὶ ἡ δικαίωσισ καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 3 1:1)
  • καὶ διότι πρεσβεύσει πρὸσ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ αὐτῶν Ἐποσόγνατοσ καὶ ποιήσεται λόγουσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ φιλίασ, καὶ πεπεῖσθαι πρὸσ πᾶν αὐτοὺσ παραστήσεσθαι τὸ καλῶσ ἔχον. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 37 3:1)

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

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