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ῥάβδωσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: rhabdōsis

Principal Part: ῥάβδωσις ῥάβδωσεως

Structure: ῥαβδωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: as if from ῥαβδόω

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)
  • εἶτα ἐπ αὐτῇ μαίανδρος πηχυαῖος τὸ ὕψος ἐξείργαστο κατὰ σύνθεσιν λίθων παντοίων τὴν ἰδέαν, κατ αὐτοῦ δὲ ῥάβδωσις ἀναγέγλυπτο, καθ ἧς πλέγμα ῥομβωτὸν δικτύοις ἐμφερὲς ἑώς τοῦ χείλους ἀνείλκυστο: (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 92:1)

Synonyms

  1. the fluting

Similar forms

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

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