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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

  • καθόλου μάχησ μηδεμιᾶσ συμπεσούσησ, ὡσ ἱστόρηκε Θουκυδίδησ, οὐκ ἀρκεσθεὶσ δὲ ταύτῃ τῇ τερατολογίᾳ ὁ Πλάτων ἐπάγει καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ γενομένην, μᾶλλον δὲ πεπλασμένην ἀνδραγαθίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 55 2:5)
  • πάντεσ μὲν γὰρ οἱ περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸ θαυμαστὸν ἀντὶ τἀληθοῦσ ἀπεδέχοντο μᾶλλον, ὑπερβάλλεσθαι δὲ δοκεῖ τοὺσ τοσούτουσ ἐκεῖνοσ τῇ τερατολογίᾳ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 56:6)

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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