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ῥίζωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥίζωσις ῥίζωσεως

Structure: ῥιζωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a taking root, beginning life

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 τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα καλῶσ βλαστάνῃ, αὐταὶ τε μετὰ ῥώμησ τοὺσ τόκουσ ὑπομένουσαι ῥᾳδίωσ τε ἅμα καὶ καλῶσ ἀγωνίζωνται πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ, καὶ, εἴ τισ ἀνάγκη γένοιτο, δύνωνται ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν καὶ τέκνων καὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ μάχεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 121)
  • "ἡ τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα καλῶσ βλαστάνῃ· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 121)
  • τὰ μέν γε σώματα τῶν παρθένων δρόμοισ καὶ πάλαισ καὶ βολαῖσ δίσκων καὶ ἀκοντίων διεπόνησεν, ὡσ ἥ τε τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα βλαστάνοι βέλτιον, αὐταί τε μετὰ ῥώμησ τοὺσ τόκουσ ὑπομένουσαι καλῶσ ἅμα καὶ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀγωνίζοιντο πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 14 2:1)
  • Ῥίζωσισ φλεβῶν ἧπαρ, Ῥίζωσισ ἀρτηριῶν καρδίη‧ ἐκ τούτων ἀποπλανᾶται ἐσ πάντα αἷμα καὶ πνεῦμα, καὶ θερμασίη διὰ τούτων φοιτᾷ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxxi.1)

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

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