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πτῆσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτῆσις πτῆσεως

Structure: πτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pth=nai

Sense

  1. a flying, flight

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

  • ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν οὖν εἰσιόντι Ἀργολικῷ μύθῳ ἀναμέμικται πάθοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν ὁ Περσεὺσ τὸ κῆτοσ φονεύει καὶ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καθαιρεῖ, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν γαμήσει καὶ ἄπεισιν αὐτὴν ἄγων πάρεργον τοῦτο τῆσ ἐπὶ Γοργόνασ πτήσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 22:1)
  • νεανίασ γὰρ καὶ δυνατὸσ ἀντέχειν πρὸσ τὴν φοράν, ἡ δὲ ὑπ̓ ἀηθείασ ἐπιβᾶσα ὀχήματοσ παραδόξου καὶ ἀπιδοῦσα ἐσ βάθοσ ἀχανέσ, ἐκπλαγεῖσα καὶ τῷ θάλπει ἅμα συσχεθεῖσα καὶ ἰλιγγιάσασα πρὸσ τὸ σφοδρὸν τῆσ πτήσεωσ ἀκρατὴσ ἐγένετο τῶν κεράτων τοῦ κριοῦ, ὧν τέωσ ἐπείληπτο, καὶ κατέπεσεν ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 2 1:4)
  • Ἡράκλεισ, δεινόν τινα φὴσ τὸν ὄνειρον εἴ γε πτηνὸσ ὤν, ὥσ φασιν, καὶ ὁρ́ον ἔχων τῆσ πτήσεωσ τὸν ὕπνον ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐσκαμμένα ἤδη πηδᾷ καὶ ἐνδιατρίβει ἀνεῳγόσι τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ μελιχρὸσ οὕτωσ καὶ ἐναργὴσ φαινόμενοσ· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 6:4)
  • ἵπτασθαι δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ πέτεσθαι πολλῶν λεγόντων, Ὅτι μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ πτήσεωσ τὸ ὄνομα, σαφῶσ ἴσμεν. (Lucian, 7:12)
  • εἶτα διαδήσασ καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ὤμουσ τελαμῶσι καρτεροῖσ ἁρμοσάμενοσ καὶ πρὸσ ἄκροισ τοῖσ ὠκυπτέροισ λαβάσ τινασ ταῖσ χερσὶ παρασκευάσασ ἐπειρώμην ἐμαυτοῦ τὸ πρῶτον ἀναπηδῶν καὶ ταῖσ χερσὶ ὑπηρετῶν καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ χῆνεσ ἔτι χαμαιπετῶσ ἐπαιρόμενοσ καὶ ἀκροβατῶν ἅμα μετὰ τῆσ πτήσεωσ· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 10:9)

Synonyms

  1. a flying

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

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