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στενοχωρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στενοχωρία

Structure: στενοχωρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from steno/xwros

Sense

  1. narrowness of space: want of room, the difficulty of passing

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

  • ὥστε πολλοὺσ μὲν ἐν ταῖσ στενοχωρίαισ τῶν ὁδῶν καταληφθέντασ ἀποθανεῖν, πολλῷ δὲ πλείουσ παρὰ ταῖσ πύλαισ ὠθουμένουσ τῶν ἱππέων ἐπιδιωκόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 70 3:2)
  • διὸ εὐδοκῶ ἐν ἀσθενείαισ, ἐν ὕβρεσιν, ἐν ἀνάγκαισ, ἐν διωγμοῖσ καὶ στενοχωρίαισ, ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ· (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 7 127:1)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ πλεονεκτήσειν ἐν ταῖσ στενοχωρίαισ τοὺσ ὀλίγοισ σκάφεσι διαγωνιζομένουσ πρὸσ πολλαπλασίασ ναῦσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 12 27:2)

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

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