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τερατολογία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τερατολογία

Structure: τερατολογι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from teratolo/gos

Sense

  1. a telling of marvels, marvellous tales

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

  • τοὺσ δὲ ποιητὰσ διὰ τὴν συνήθη τερατολογίαν μυθολογῆσαι μόνον τὸν Ἡρακλέα καὶ γυμνὸν ὅπλων τελέσαι τοὺσ τεθρυλημένουσ ἄθλουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 53 7:3)
  • ἐκ μηδενὸσ δὲ ἀληθοῦσ ἀνάπτειν κενὴν τερατολογίαν οὐχ Ὁμηρικόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 18:4)
  • Ἐκ μηδενὸσ δὲ ἀληθοῦσ ἀνάπτειν κενὴν τερατολογίαν οὐχ Ὁμηρικόν. (Polybius, Histories, book 34, ii. de ulixis navigatione, prope siciliam praesertim 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a telling of marvels

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

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