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πώλευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πώλευσις πώλευσεως

Structure: πωλευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from pwleu/w

Sense

  1. horsebreaking

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πώλευσις πωλεύσει πωλεύσεις
Genitive πωλεύσεως πωλεύσοιν πωλεύσεων
Dative πωλεύσει πωλεύσοιν πωλεύσεσιν*
Accusative πώλευσιν πωλεύσει πωλεύσεις
Vocative πώλευσι πωλεύσει πωλεύσεις

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

  • πολὺ δὲ κρεῖττον τοῦ πωλοδαμνεῖν εἶναι τῷ μὲν νέῳ εὐεξίασ τε ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἱππικὴν ἐν ἢ ἐπισταμένῳ ἤδη ἱππάζεσθαι μελετᾶν, τῷ δὲ πρεσβυτέρῳ τοῦ τε οἴκου καὶ τῶν φίλων καὶ τῶν πολιτικῶν καὶ τῶν πολεμικῶν μᾶλλον ἢ ἀμφὶ πώλευσιν διατρίβειν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. horsebreaking

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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