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σιμότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιμότης σιμότητος

Structure: σιμοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: simo/s

Sense

  1. the shape of a snub nose, snubbiness
  2. the upward curve

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

  • ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ γρυπότησ καὶ ἡ σιμότησ οὐ μόνον ἀνιέμενα ἔρχεται εἰσ τὸ μέσον, ἀλλὰ καὶ σφόδρα γρυπὰ γινόμενα ἢ σιμὰ οὕτωσ διατίθεται ὥστε μηδὲ μυκτῆρα δοκεῖν εἶναι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 4 12:4)
  • λέγω δὲ οἱο͂ν ἔστι ῥὶσ καὶ κοιλότησ, καὶ σιμότησ τὸ ἐκ τῶν δυοῖν λεγόμενον τῷ τόδε ἐν τῷδε, καὶ οὐ κατὰ συμβεβηκόσ γε οὔθ’ ἡ κοιλότησ οὔθ’ ἡ σιμότησ πάθοσ τῆσ ῥινόσ, ἀλλὰ καθ’ αὑτήν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 55:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ οὐσία ἐστὶ τὸ εἶδοσ τὸ ἐνόν, ἐξ οὗ καὶ τῆσ ὕλησ ἡ σύνολοσ λέγεται οὐσία, οἱο͂ν ἡ κοιλότησ ἐκ γὰρ ταύτησ καὶ τῆσ ῥινὸσ σιμὴ ῥὶσ καὶ ἡ σιμότησ ἐστί δὶσ γὰρ ἐν τούτοισ ὑπάρξει ἡ ῥίσ ‐ ἐν δὲ τῇ συνόλῳ οὐσίᾳ, οἱο͂ν ῥινὶ σιμῇ ἢ Καλλίᾳ, ἐνέσται καὶ ἡ ὕλη· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 185:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ σιμότησ ἐν ῥινὶ γίγνεται, διὸ καὶ ὁ λόγοσ αὐτῆσ μετὰ ταύτησ θεωρεῖται· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 107:1)

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

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