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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

  • νὴ Δία, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν οὕτωσ εἴρηκε, τὰ δ’ ἔξω τῆσ αἰσθήσεωσ καὶ οὗτοσ καὶ ἄλλοι τερατολογίασ μυθικῆσ πεπληρώκασιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 6:14)
  • πλεῖστα δὲ πλάσματα τῇ Λιβυκῇ παραλίᾳ τῇ ἐκτὸσ προσεψεύσαντο οἱ συγγραφεῖσ ἀρξάμενοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀφέλα περίπλου, περὶ ὧν ἐμνήσθημέν που καὶ πρότερον, καὶ νῦν δὲ λέγομεν, συγγνώμην αἰτούμενοι τῆσ τερατολογίασ, ἐάν που βιασθῶμεν ἐκπεσεῖν εἴσ τι τοιοῦτο, φεύγοντεσ τὸ πάντα σιγῇ παραπέμπειν καὶ τρόπον τινὰ πηροῦν τὴν ἱστορίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 6:1)
  • καὶ Γαβίνιοσ δὲ ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων συγγραφεὺσ οὐκ ἀπέχεται τῆσ τερατολογίασ τῆσ περὶ τὴν Μαυρουσίαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 16:9)

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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