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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

  • ἐνιαυτῶν κύκλουσ καὶ ἀστέρων θέσεισ, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:19)
  • ὁ γὰρ ἀνὴρ οὗτοσ τὴν εὐέπειαν ἐκ παντὸσ διώκει καὶ τοῦ γλαφυρῶσ λέγειν στοχάζεται μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ ἀφελῶσ, τῶν τε γὰρ φωνηέντων τὰσ παραλλήλουσ θέσεισ ὡσ ἐκλυούσασ τὰσ ἁρμονίασ τῶν ἤχων καὶ τὴν λειότητα τῶν φθόγγων λυμαινομένασ περιίσταται, περιόδῳ τε καὶ κύκλῳ περιλαμβάνειν τὰ νοήματα πειρᾶται ῥυθμοειδεῖ πάνυ καὶ οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχοντι τοῦ ποιητικοῦ μέτρου, ἀναγνώσεώσ τε μᾶλλον οἰκειότερόσ ἐστιν ἢ χρήσεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2 1:4)
  • ἐκεῖνοσ οὖν τὴν κλῆσιν ἐσ δύ’ ἡμέρασ ἔθηκεν, ἔσ γε τὴν ἕνην τε καὶ νέαν, ἵν’ αἱ θέσεισ γίγνοιντο τῇ νουμηνίᾳ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics15)
  • "αὐτὸσ γὰρ οὖν ὁ Ἐπίκουροσ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν πρὸσ Θεόφραστον οὐκ εἶναι λέγων τὰ χρώματα συμφυῆ τοῖσ σώμασιν, ἀλλὰ γεννᾶσθαι κατὰ ποιάσ τινασ τάξεισ καὶ θέσεισ πρὸσ τὴν ὄψιν," οὐ μᾶλλόν φησι κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ἀχρωμάτιστον σῶμα εἶναι ἢ χρῶμα ἔχον. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 72)
  • "ἵνα τοίνυν ἀφῶ πέντε τετραχόρδων θέσεισ, καὶ πέντε τοὺσ πρώτουσ, εἴτε τόνουσ ἢ τρόπουσ; (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 1010)

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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