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συμφόρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συμφόρησις συμφόρησεως

Structure: συμφορησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from sumfore/w

Sense

  1. a bringing 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

  • θνήσκειν μὲν γὰρ παρά τοὺσ ἐμφυλίουσ πολέμουσ, ὅταν τροπὴ γένηται, πλείονασ εἰκόσ ἐστι ι, τῷ μηδέν α ζωγρεῖν, χρῆσθαι γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι τοῖσ ἁλισκομένοισ, ἡ δ’ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο σωρεία καὶ συμφόρησισ οὐκ ἔχει τὴν αἰτίαν εὐσυλλόγιστον. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 14 2:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ κοινότησ ἡ ὑπάρχουσα αὐτοῖσ πρὸσ τὰ ἀμετάβολα ἱκανὴ τὸ μέχρι τούτου συντελέσαι, συμφόρησιν δὲ ἐκ τούτων κίνησιν ἐχόντων οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε γίνεσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 59:5)

Synonyms

  1. a bringing together

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

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