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συνεγγισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συνεγγισμός συνεγγισμοῦ

Structure: συνεγγισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from suneggi/zw

Sense

  1. a drawing near together

Declension

Second 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

  • ἀεὶ γὰρ πρὸσ ὃ ἂν ἡ τελειότησ τινὸσ καθάπαξ ἄγῃ, πρὸσ αὐτὸ ἡ προκοπὴ συνεγγισμόσ ἐστιν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 4:1)
  • νῦν δ’ ἄλλο μέν τι τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐπιφέρειν ὁμολογοῦμεν, ἄλλο[ν] δὲ τὸν συνεγγισμόν, τὴν προκοπὴν ἀποφαίνομεν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 8:1)
  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ τοῖσ ἰσημερινοῖσ ζῳδίοισ τῆσ σελήνησ οὔσησ ὁμαλίζειν τὰ πάθη, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ τροπικοῖσ ἀνωμαλίαν εἶναι καὶ πλήθει καὶ τάχει, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων ἑκάστου κατὰ τοὺσ συνεγγισμοὺσ εἶναι τὴν ἀναλογίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 18:2)

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

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