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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

  • ὁπότε γάρ τισ ὁμολογήσειε τοῦ μὲν ἄρχοντοσ εἶναι τὸ προστάττειν ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν, τοῦ δὲ ἀρχομένου τὸ πείθεσθαι, ἐπεδείκνυεν ἔν τε νηὶ τὸν μὲν ἐπιστάμενον ἄρχοντα, τὸν δὲ ναύκληρον καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ τοὺσ ἐν τῇ νηὶ πάντασ πειθομένουσ τῷ ἐπισταμένῳ, καὶ ἐν γεωργίᾳ τοὺσ κεκτημένουσ ἀγρούσ, καὶ ἐν νόσῳ τοὺσ νοσοῦντασ, καὶ ἐν σωμασκίᾳ τοὺσ σωμασκοῦντασ, καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ πάντασ οἷσ ὑπάρχει τι ἐπιμελείασ δεόμενον, ἂν μὲν αὐτοὶ ἡγῶνται ἐπίστασθαι ἐπιμελεῖσθαι ‐ · (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 9 16:1)

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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