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σίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίτησις σίτησεως

Structure: σιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: si_te/w

Sense

  1. an eating, feeding, home consumption, public maintenance
  2. food

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

  • εἴπατέ μοι πρὸσ Διόσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, προῖκα τοῦτον οἰέσθε γράψαι Διφίλῳ τὴν ἐν πρυτανείῳ σίτησιν, καὶ τὴν εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἀνατεθησομένην εἰκόνα; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 51:1)
  • καὶ στρατηγὸσ οὐδ’ ἂν εἷσ τῶν πρὸ τοῦ σίτησιν ᾔτησ’ ἐρόμενοσ Κλεαίνετον· (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme4)
  • νόμοσ τισ ἐνθάδ’ ἐστὶ κείμενοσ ἀπὸ τῶν τεχνῶν ὅσαι μεγάλαι καὶ δεξιαί, τὸν ἄριστον ὄντα τῶν ἑαυτοῦ συντέχνων σίτησιν αὐτὸν ἐν πρυτανείῳ λαμβάνειν θρόνον τε τοῦ Πλούτωνοσ ἑξῆσ ‐ μανθάνω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Episode23)
  • ἡσθεὶσ οὖν ἐπὶ τῇ τῆσ ἐννοίασ εὑρέσει καὶ καινότητι τὴν ἐν Μουσῶν αὐτῷ σίτησιν ἔχειν ἐχαρίσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 21 1:3)
  • τῷ δὲ Κλεομάντει τῷ Δελφῷ ἡ πόλισ αὐτῷ τε καὶ ἐκγόνοισ ἐν πρυτανείῳ ἀίδιον σίτησιν ἔδοσαν. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 117:3)

Synonyms

  1. food

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

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