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τήρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τήρησις τήρησεως

Structure: τηρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from thre/w

Sense

  1. a watching, keeping, guarding
  2. vigilance
  3. a means of keeping, a place of custody

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

  • εὖ δὲ καὶ Ἵππαρχοσ ἐν τοῖσ πρὸσ Ἐρατοσθένην διδάσκει, ὅτι παντὶ καὶ ἰδιώτῃ καὶ τῷ φιλομαθοῦντι τῆσ γεωγραφικῆσ ἱστορίασ προσηκούσησ, ἀδύνατον [αὐτὴν] λαβεῖν ἄνευ τῆσ τῶν οὐρανίων καὶ τῆσ τῶν ἐκλειπτικῶν τηρήσεων ἐπικρίσεωσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 1 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. a watching

Related

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

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