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ταλασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλασία

Structure: ταλασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. wool-spinning

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

  • εἰ δὲ τοῦτο μὴ λέγεται κακῶσ, ἀλλ’ ἐχρῶντο Ῥωμαῖοι τότε τῷ ὀνόματι τῆσ ταλασίασ καθάπερ ἡμεῖσ, ἑτέραν ἄν τισ αἰτίαν εἰκάσειε πιθανωτέραν. (Plutarch, chapter 15 3:3)
  • ἐκ τούτου συντίθενται, τῶν μὲν γυναικῶν τὰσ βουλομένασ συνοικεῖν τοῖσ ἔχουσιν, ὥσπερ εἴρηται παντὸσ ἔργου καὶ πάσησ λατρείασ πλὴν ταλασίασ ἀφειμένασ, οἰκεῖν δὲ κοινῇ τὴν πόλιν Ῥωμαίουσ καὶ Σαβίνουσ, καὶ καλεῖσθαι μὲν Ῥώμην ἐπὶ Ῥωμύλῳ τὴν πόλιν, Κυρίτασ δὲ Ῥωμαίουσ ἅπαντασ ἐπὶ τῇ Τατίου πατρίδι, βασιλεύειν δὲ κοινῇ καὶ στρατηγεῖν ἀμφοτέρουσ. (Plutarch, chapter 19 7:1)
  • πότερον ἀπὸ τῆσ ταλασίασ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 31 1:2)
  • πότερον ἀπὸ τῆσ ταλασίασ καὶ γὰρ τὸν τάλαρον τάλασον ὀνομάζουσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 312)
  • ἄλλαι δέ τοι, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἴδιαι ἐπιμέλειαι, ὦ γύναι, ἡδεῖαί σοι γίγνονται, ὁπόταν ἀνεπιστήμονα ταλασίασ λαβοῦσα ἐπιστήμονα ποιήσῃσ καὶ διπλασίου σοι ἀξία γένηται, καὶ ὁπόταν ἀνεπιστήμονα ταμιείασ καὶ διακονίασ παραλαβοῦσα ἐπιστήμονα καὶ πιστὴν καὶ διακονικὴν ποιησαμένη παντὸσ ἀξίαν ἔχῃσ, καὶ ὁπόταν τοὺσ μὲν σώφρονάσ τε καὶ ὠφελίμουσ τῷ σῷ οἴκῳ ἐξῇ σοι εὖ ποιῆσαι, ἐὰν δέ τισ πονηρὸσ φαίνηται, ἐξῇ σοι κολάσαι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 42:1)

Synonyms

  1. wool-spinning

Related

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

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