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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

  • ἐναρμόνιοσ δὲ καὶ ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύνταξισ, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ τὸ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἡρμοσμένον ἐν πέντε τετραχόρδων θέσεσιν ὁρᾶται, τῶν ὑπάτων καὶ μέσων καὶ συνημμένων καὶ διεζευγμένων καὶ ὑπερβολαίων· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 36 9:1)

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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