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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πτῆσις πτήσει πτήσεις
Genitive πτήσεως πτήσοιν πτήσεων
Dative πτήσει πτήσοιν πτήσεσιν*
Accusative πτῆσιν πτήσει πτήσεις
Vocative πτῆσι πτήσει πτήσεις

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

  • ἡ δὲ πτῆσισ οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ νυκτερίδασ εἰρεσίᾳ συνεχεῖ τῶν πτερῶν οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ ἀκρίδασ μετὰ πηδήματοσ οὔτε ὡσ οἱ σφῆκεσ μετὰ ῥοιζήματοσ, ἀλλ’ εὐκαμπὴσ πρὸσ ὅ τι ἂν μέροσ ὁρμήσῃ τοῦ ἀέροσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:1)
  • εἰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ φορὰ κίνησισ πόθεν ποῖ, καὶ ταύτησ διαφοραὶ κατ’ εἴδη, πτῆσισ βάδισισ ἅλσισ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 38:4)
  • "καὶ πρόσγειοσ αὐτῆσ ἡ πτῆσίσ ἐστι, τὰ μικρὰ καὶ λεπτὰ τῶν ζῴων ἀγρευούσησ, ὥσ φησιν Ἀριστοτέλησ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. a flying

Similar forms

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

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