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τίλσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίλσις τίλσεως

Structure: τιλσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a plucking out

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τίλσις τίλσει τίλσεις
Genitive τίλσεως τίλσοιν τίλσεων
Dative τίλσει τίλσοιν τίλσεσιν*
Accusative τίλσιν τίλσει τίλσεις
Vocative τίλσι τίλσει τίλσεις

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

  • αὗται μὲν θηριώδεισ, αἳ δὲ διὰ νόσουσ γίνονται καὶ διὰ μανίαν ἐνίοισ, ὥσπερ ὁ τὴν μητέρα καθιερεύσασ καὶ φαγών, καὶ ὁ τοῦ συνδούλου τὸ ἧπαρ αἳ δὲ νοσηματώδεισ ἢ ἐξ ἔθουσ, οἱο͂ν τριχῶν τίλσεισ καὶ ὀνύχων τρώξεισ, ἔτι δ’ ἀνθράκων καὶ γῆσ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἡ τῶν ἀφροδισίων τοῖσ ἄρρεσιν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. a plucking out

Similar forms

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

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