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ῥάβδωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥάβδωσις ῥάβδωσεως

Structure: ῥαβδωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: as if from r(abdo/w

Sense

  1. the fluting

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

  • ἡ γὰρ τῶν λίθων σύνθεσισ ἑτέρα τῆσ τοῦ κίονοσ ῥαβδώσεωσ, καὶ αὗται τῆσ τοῦ ναοῦ ποιήσεωσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 37:3)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν στέφανον ὁμοίωσ ἡ τῶν ὠῶν διάθεσισ πεποίητο καὶ ἡ τῆσ ῥαβδώσεωσ ἀναγλυφή, τῆσ τραπέζησ ἐπ’ ἀμφότερον μέροσ ἔχειν τὴν αὐτὴν τῆσ ποικιλίασ τῶν ἔργων καὶ γλαφυρότητοσ θέαν κατεσκευασμένησ, ὡσ καὶ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων κυμάτων θέσιν καὶ τὴν τῆσ στεφάνησ μηδὲ τῆσ τραπέζησ ἐφ’ ἕτερον μέροσ ἐναλλαττομένησ γίγνεσθαι διάφορον, τὴν δ’ αὐτὴν ἄχρι καὶ τῶν ποδῶν ὄψιν τῆσ ἐπιτεχνήσεωσ διατετάσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 81:1)

Synonyms

  1. the fluting

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

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