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θησαυρισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θησαυρισμός

Etym.: from qhsauri/zw

Sense

  1. a laying up in store

Examples

  • καὶ ἄνευ δὲ τῆσ κατάρασ ἀπρεπὴσ καὶ ἀνωφελὴσ ὁ θησαυρισμὸσ αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἁμαρτημάτων ὥσπερ ἡ πόλισ, ἣν ἐκ τῶν κακίστων καὶ ἀναγωγοτάτων κτίσασ ὁ Φίλιπποσ Πονηρόπολιν προσηγόρευσεν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 10 2:1)
  • ἓν μὲν οὖν εἶδοσ κτητικῆσ κατὰ φύσιν τῆσ οἰκονομικῆσ μέροσ ἐστίν, καθὸ δεῖ ἤτοι ὑπάρχειν ἢ πορίζειν αὐτὴν ὅπωσ ὑπάρχῃ ὧν ἔστι θησαυρισμὸσ χρημάτων πρὸσ ζωὴν ἀναγκαίων, καὶ χρησίμων εἰσ κοινωνίαν πόλεωσ ἢ οἰκίασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 104:1)

Synonyms

  1. a laying up in store

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

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