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συστολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συστολή

Structure: συστολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: suste/llw

Sense

  1. a drawing together, contraction, limitation

Declension

First 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

  • ἄλλαι δ’ ἄνωθεν ἐν ἄκρῳ τοῦ περιέχοντοσ ὀφθῆναί τε φαιδραὶ καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ὑπ’ εὐμενείασ θαμὰ πελάζουσαι τὰσ δὲ θορυβώδεισ ἐκείνασ ἐκτρεπόμεναι, διεσήμαινον ὡσ ἐοίκε συστολῇ μὲν εἰσ ἑαυτὰσ τὸ δυσχεραῖνον, ἐκπετάσει δὲ καὶ διαχύσει τὸ χαῖρον καὶ προσιέμενον. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 18:1)
  • ὥστε καὶ τὸν Πτολεμαῖον αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺσ περὶ τὴν αὐλὴν εὐδοκῆσαι τῇ πρότερον αὐτοῦ συστολῇ καὶ τῷ μηδὲν προί̈εσθαι. (Polybius, Histories, book 27, ii. res aegypti 4:1)

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

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