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σωμασκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωμασκία

Structure: σωμασκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bodily exercise, training of the body, athletic

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

  • ἐνιαυτὸν ὃν ἂν ἄρχωσιν, μηδ’ αὖ κυβερνήτασ μηδὲ δικαστὰσ ἐνεργοὺσ ὄντασ οἴνου γεύεσθαι τὸ παράπαν, μηδ’ ὅστισ βουλευσόμενοσ εἰσ βουλὴν ἀξίαν τινὰ λόγου συνέρχεται, μηδέ γε μεθ’ ἡμέραν μηδένα τὸ παράπαν εἰ μὴ σωμασκίασ ἢ νόσων ἕνεκα, μηδ’ αὖ νύκτωρ ὅταν ἐπινοῇ τισ παῖδασ ποιεῖσθαι ἀνὴρ ἢ καὶ γυνή. (Plato, Laws, book 2 132:1)
  • " Ἐπεμελεῖτο δὲ καὶ σωμασκίασ, καὶ ἦν εὐέκτησ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. e'. SWKRATHS 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. bodily exercise

Related

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

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