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θέσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέσις θέσεως

Structure: θεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a setting, placement, arrangement
  2. deposit
  3. adoption (of a child)
  4. adoption (in the more general sense of accepting as one's own)
  5. (philosophy) position, conclusion, thesis
  6. (dancing) putting down the foot
  7. (metre) the last half of the foot
  8. (rhetoric) affirmation
  9. (grammar) stop

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

  • τῷ δὲ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ δώσω τὰ δύο σκῆπτρα, ὅπωσ ᾖ θέσισ τῷ δούλῳ μου Δαυὶδ πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῇ πόλει, ἣν ἐξελεξάμην ἐμαυτῷ τοῦ θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐκεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 11:32)
  • ἀποδιδόμενοι γὰρ ὠνοῦνται, καὶ ἡ τοῦ ταμιείου θέσισ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ταῖσ μικροτέραισ οἰκονομίαισ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 34:4)
  • ἡ σύνθεσισ ἔστι μέν, ὥσπερ καὶ αὐτὸ δηλοῖ τοὔνομα, ποιά τισ θέσισ παρ’ ἄλληλα τῶν τοῦ λόγου μορίων, ἃ δὴ καὶ στοιχεῖά τινεσ τῆσ λέξεωσ καλοῦσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 21)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ ἡ θέσισ τῶν Καρνείων κατὰ τὴν ἕκτην καὶ εἰκοστὴν ὀλυμπιάδα, ὡσ Σωσίβιόσ φησιν ἐν τῷ περὶ Χρόνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 37 2:4)
  • "ἡ δὲ τοιαύτη θέσισ τῶν φιαλῶν Ιὠνική ἐστι καὶ ἀρχαία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 103 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. deposit

  2. adoption

  3. adoption

  4. putting down the foot

  5. stop

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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