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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

  • καὶ ἤρξατο ὁ φόβοσ Ἰούδα καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ πτόησισ ἐπιπίπτειν ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ κύκλῳ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:25)
  • καὶ γὰρ διανοήματοσ εὐτέλεια καὶ ῥήματοσ κενότησ καὶ σχῆμα φορτικὸν καὶ πτόησισ μετὰ χαρᾶσ ἀπειροκάλου πρὸσ ἔπαινον καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα μᾶλλον ἀκροωμένοισ ἐφ’ ἑτέρων ἢ λέγουσιν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν καταφαίνεται. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 6 3:2)

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

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