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σπανοσιτία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπανοσιτία

Structure: σπανοσιτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: si=tos

Sense

  1. lack of corn or food

Declension

First 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

  • τὸ μὲν οὖν πρῶτον ὁ Σεσόωσισ ἀποσταλεὶσ ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ μετὰ δυνάμεωσ εἰσ τὴν Ἀραβίαν, συστρατευομένων καὶ τῶν συντρόφων, περί τε τὰσ θήρασ διεπονήθη καὶ ταῖσ ἀνυδρίαισ καὶ σπανοσιτίαισ ἐγκαρτερήσασ κατεστρέψατο τὸ ἔθνοσ ἅπαν τὸ τῶν Ἀράβων, ἀδούλωτον τὸν πρὸ τοῦ χρόνον γεγονόσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 53 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. lack of corn or food

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

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