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σύγκλεισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύγκλεισις

Structure: συγκλεισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sugklei/w

Sense

  1. a shutting up, closing up
  2. a narrow pass, defile

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

  • καὶ τὸ πᾶν οὕτωσ ἀκριβῶσ φράσσεται, ὥστε καὶ ἀκοντιστὰσ ἄνωθεν καθάπερ ἐπὶ στέγησ διαθέοντασ δέχεσθαι, καὶ λίθου ἁμαξιαίουσ μὴ διαλύειν τὴν σύγκλεισιν, ἀλλὰ κατακυλιομένουσ τῇ ῥύμῃ ὑπερπίπτειν ἐσ τὸ δάπεδον. (Arrian, chapter 11 8:1)
  • νέα μὲν οὖν σύστασισ τοῦ παντὸσ ζῴου, καινὰ τὰ τρίγωνα οἱο͂ν ἐκ δρυόχων ἔτι ἔχουσα τῶν γενῶν, ἰσχυρὰν μὲν τὴν σύγκλεισιν αὐτῶν πρὸσ ἄλληλα κέκτηται, συμπέπηγεν δὲ ὁ πᾶσ ὄγκοσ αὐτῆσ ἁπαλόσ, ἅτ’ ἐκ μυελοῦ μὲν νεωστὶ γεγονυίασ, τεθραμμένησ δὲ ἐν γάλακτι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 418:3)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἐσήμηνεν ὀρθὰ ἀνατεῖναι τὰ δόρατα τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ, ἔπειτα ἀπὸ ξυνθήματοσ ἀποτεῖναι ἐσ προβολήν, καὶ νῦν μὲν ἐσ τὸ δεξιὸν ἐγκλῖναι τῶν δοράτων τὴν σύγκλεισιν, αὖθισ δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ ἀριστερά. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shutting up

  2. a narrow pass

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

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