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ῥῆσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥῆσις ῥῆσεως

Structure: ῥησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w, e)rw=

Sense

  1. a saying, speaking, speech, phrase
  2. a resolution, declaration
  3. a tale, legend
  4. a phrase or passage, a speech in a play

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ῥῆσις ῥήσει ῥήσεις
Genitive ῥήσεως ῥήσοιν ῥήσεων
Dative ῥήσει ῥήσοιν ῥήσεσιν*
Accusative ῥῆσιν ῥήσει ῥήσεις
Vocative ῥῆσι ῥήσει ῥήσεις

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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ὑφ’ ἡλίῳ ἔτι ποιησόμεθα τὴν συνουσίαν, ὡσ ἄχθεσθαι εἰ ἀποτείνοιτο ἡ ῥῆσισ, ἀλλὰ ἥ τε σκιὰ πυκνὴ καὶ ἡμεῖσ σχολὴν ἄγομεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 19:7)
  • Ῥῆσισ Εὐριπίδου τὰσ χάριτασ ὅστισ εὐγενῶσ χαρίζεται, ἥδιον ἐν βροτοῖσιν· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 134:4)
  • εἰσ τὰσ ἐν Μέμφει πυραμίδασ Ὄσσαν ἐπ’ Οὐλύμπῳ καὶ Πήλιον ὑψωθέντα ψευδὴσ ἱστορίησ ῥῆσισ ἀνεπλάσατο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7101)
  • " τοῦτο ἐστὶ ἡ ἀπὸ Σκυθέων ῥῆσισ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 127 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a saying

  2. a resolution

  3. a tale

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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