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σιώπησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιώπησις σιωπήσεως

Structure: σιωπησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. taciturnity, (figuratively) a veil, covering

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

  • εἰ μὴ σιωπήσει, θενών σου ’κκοκκιῶ τὸ γῆρασ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, tetrameters16)
  • οὐ σιωπήσει; (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, monody 1:4)
  • ἔτι δ’ αὐτοῦ λέγοντοσ οἱ δέκα περιίστανται κεκραγότεσ καὶ τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἐπανασείοντεσ ἐξουσίαν καὶ ῥίψειν αὐτὸν ἀπειλοῦντεσ κατὰ τῆσ πέτρασ, εἰ μὴ σιωπήσει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 6 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. taciturnity

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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