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τάσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τάσις τάσεως

Structure: τασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tei/nw

Sense

  1. stretching, tension
  2. extension
  3. (in music) pitch of the voice
  4. intensity, force

Declension

Third 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

  • μιᾷ γὰρ αἱ δύο συλλαβαὶ λέγονται τάσει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1138)
  • ἔστι γὰρ διάστημα ἐν μελῳδίᾳ πᾶν τὸ περιεχόμενον ὑπὸ δυεῖν φθόγγων ἀνομοίων τῇ τάσει· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 172)
  • τισ τῇ τάσει, πρὸσ τοῦ Διὸσ οὐκ ἀνάγκη πᾶσαν λελύσθαι τὴν ἁρμονίαν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. stretching

  2. extension

  3. pitch of the voice

  4. intensity

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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