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πτόησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτόησις

Structure: πτοησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ptoe/w

Sense

  1. passionate excitement

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

  • πρώτων δὲ τῶν τὸν περὶ Χέμμιν οἰκούντων τόπον Πανῶν καὶ Σατύρων τὸ πάθοσ αἰσθομένων καὶ λόγον ἐμβαλόντων περὶ τοῦ γεγονότοσ, τὰσ μὲν αἰφνιδίουσ τῶν ὄχλων ταραχὰσ καὶ πτοήσεισ ἔτι νῦν διὰ τοῦτο πανικὰσ προσαγορεύεσθαι· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 141)

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

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