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συγκοίμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγκοίμησις συγκοίμησεως

Structure: συγκοιμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from sugkoima/w

Sense

  1. a sleeping together

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

  • οἱο͂́ν ἐστι καὶ τὸ τῆσ συγκοιμήσεωσ τοῦ Πάριδοσ ἐκ τῆσ μάχησ ἀποδράντοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 18:1)
  • ἐν οὖν τῇ συγκοιμήσει τοῦ μὲν ἐραστοῦ ὁ ἀκόλαστοσ ἵπποσ ἔχει ὅτι λέγῃ πρὸσ τὸν ἡνίοχον, καὶ ἀξιοῖ ἀντὶ πολλῶν πόνων σμικρὰ ἀπολαῦσαι· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 197:4)
  • καὶ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ γέ που τῶν νέων ἐν πολέμῳ ἢ ἄλλοθί που γέρα δοτέον καὶ ἆθλα ἄλλα τε καὶ ἀφθονεστέρα ἡ ἐξουσία τῆσ τῶν γυναικῶν συγκοιμήσεωσ, ἵνα καὶ ἅμα μετὰ προφάσεωσ ὡσ πλεῖστοι τῶν παίδων ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων σπείρωνται. (Plato, Republic, book 5 260:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sleeping together

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

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