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πώλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πώλησις πώλησεως

Structure: πωλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from pwle/w

Sense

  1. a selling, sale

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

  • "ἔπειθ’ ὅσοι παρῆσαν ἐπίσημοι ξένοι ἐπηκολούθουν κἠντιβόλουν προσκείμενοι, ὅκωσ ἔχων τὸν παῖδα πωλήσει ’σ Χίον, ἕτεροσ δ’ ὅκωσ ἐσ Κλαζομενάσ, ἕτεροσ δ’ ὅκωσ ἐσ Ἔφεσον, ὁ δ’ ἐσ Ἄβυδον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:66)
  • ἣ μὲν γὰρ καθ’ αὑτὸ χρῆσισ τοῦ κτήματοσ ἐστίν, οἱο͂ν ὑποδήματοσ ἢ ἱματίου, ἣ δὲ κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ μέν, οὐ μέντοι οὕτωσ ὡσ ἂν εἴ τισ σταθμῷ χρήσαιτο τῷ ὑποδήματι, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἡ πώλησισ καὶ ἡ μίσθωσισ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 86:3)
  • καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἴσωσ οὕτωσ ὀρθῶσ ἔχει οὐ γὰρ ποιητὴσ βούλει γενέσθαι, ἱππικῇ δ’ ἀναγκαζόμενοσ χρῆσθαι οὐ μῶροσ οἰεί εἶναι εἰ μὴ σκοπεῖσ ὅπωσ μὴ ἰδιώτησ ἔσει τούτου τοῦ ἔργου, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἵππων ἀγαθῶν εἴσ τε τὴν χρῆσιν καὶ κερδαλέων εἰσ πώλησιν ὄντων; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 10:2)
  • οἰμώζων καὶ στένων πωλήσει ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ ὃ θέλεισ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 13:5)
  • ἐπειδὰν δ’ αὗται παρέλθωσιν αἱ ἡμέραι, πωλήσει ὅπωσ ἂν βούληται. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 47:2)

Synonyms

  1. a selling

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

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