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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

  • ὠνόμασται δὲ ταὧσ ἀπὸ τῆσ τάσεωσ τῶν πτερῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 57 2:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἅπασα λέξισ ἡ καθ’ ἓν μόριον λόγου ταττομένη ἐπὶ τῆσ αὐτῆσ λέγεται τάσεωσ, ἀλλ’ ἣ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ ὀξείασ, ἣ δ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ βαρείασ, ἣ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀμφοῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1125)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ἐναργῶσ γε φαίνεται καταπινόντων συναιρούμενον καὶ τοσοῦτον ὁ λάρυγξ ἀνατρέχων, ὅσον ὁ στόμαχοσ κατασπᾶται, καὶ ὅταν γε συμπληρωθείσησ τῆσ ἐν τῷ καταπίνειν ἐνεργείασ ἀφεθῇ τῆσ τάσεωσ ὁ στόμαχοσ, ἐναργῶσ πάλιν φαίνεται καταφερόμενοσ ὁ λάρυγξ· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 816)
  • νόμοι γὰρ προσηγορεύθησαν, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἐξῆν παραβῆναι καθ’ ἕκαστον νενομισμένον εἶδοσ τῆσ τάσεωσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 6 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. stretching

  2. extension

  3. pitch of the voice

  4. intensity

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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