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συμφόρησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: symphorēsis

Principal Part: συμφόρησις συμφόρησεως

Structure: συμφορησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from συμφορέω

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 οἱό῀ν 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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