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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

  • ἄρτι μὲν τὴν ἀγελαίαν πτῆσιν αὐτῆσ ἐπὶ τὸ γάλα διέρχεται,^ ἄρτι δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, ὁπότε τοῦ Μενέλεω τὸ βέλοσ ἀποκρούεται, ὡσ μὴ ἐπὶ τὰ καιριώτατα ἐμπέσοι, εἰκάζων μητρὶ κηδομένῃ κοιμωμένου αὐτῇ τοῦ βρέφουσ, τὴν μυῖαν αὖθισ ἐπεισάγει τῷ παραδείγματι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 5:8)
  • νεοττιὰν δὲ ἢ καλιὰν οὐκ ἐν ἑνὶ τόπῳ κατεστήσατο, ἀλλὰ πλάνητα τὴν πτῆσιν κατὰ τοὺσ Σκύθασ ἐπανῃρημένη, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ ὑπὸ τῆσ νυκτὸσ καταληφθεῖσα, ἐκεῖ καὶ ἑστίαν καὶ εὐνὴν ποιεῖται. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 9:1)
  • γίγνονται δὲ καὶ μέγισταί τινεσ μυῖαι, ἃσ στρατιώτιδασ οἱ πολλοὶ καλοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ κύνασ, τραχύταται τὸν βόμβον καὶ τὴν πτῆσιν ὠκύταται, αἵ γε καὶ μακροβιώταταὶ εἰσιν καὶ τοῦ χειμῶνοσ ὅλου ἄσιτοι διακαρτεροῦσιν ὑπεπτηχυῖαι τοῖσ ὀρόφοισ μάλιστα, ἐφ’ ὧν κἀκεῖνο θαυμάζειν ἄξιον, ὅτι ἀμφότερα, καὶ τὰ θηλειῶν καὶ τὰ ἀρρένων, δρῶσιν καὶ βαινόμεναι καὶ ^ βαίνοντεσ ἐν τῷ μέρει κατὰ τὸν Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ παῖδα τὸν μικτὸν τὴν φύσιν καὶ διττὸν τὸ κάλλοσ. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 12:1)
  • καί σε ὑπεμίμνησκε τῶν τελευταίων ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰρημένων, ὅτι μετρίαν καὶ ἄτυφον ἔφησ αὐτὴν οὐκ ἀνατεινομένην ὑπὲρ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον μέτρον, ἀλλὰ πρόσγειον τὴν πτῆσιν ποιουμένην, ὁ δὲ ταῦτα εἰπὼν ὑπὲρ αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβιβάζεισ τὴν γυναῖκα, ὡσ καὶ θεαῖσ ἀπεικάζειν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 8:3)
  • καὶ τοῖσ πελαργιδεῦσιν ὁρᾷσ ἐπὶ τῶν τεγῶν ὡσ οἱ τέλειοι παρόντεσ ἀναπειρωμένοισ ὑφηγοῦνται τὴν πτῆσιν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 9 13:1)

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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