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τίλσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: tilsis

Principal Part: τίλσις τίλσεως

Structure: τιλσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a plucking out

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

  • 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, οἱο῀ν 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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