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τοκισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τοκισμός τοκισμοῦ

Structure: τοκισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from toki/zw

Sense

  1. the practice of usury

Declension

Second 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

  • διαφέρει δὲ τούτων ἕτερα ἑτέρων τῷ τὰ μὲν ἀσφαλέστερα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ πλείω πορίζειν τὴν ἐπικαρπίαν, δεύτερον δὲ τοκισμόσ, τρίτον δὲ μισθαρνία ταύτησ δ’ ἡ μὲν τῶν βαναύσων τεχνῶν, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἀτέχνων καὶ τῷ σώματι μόνῳ χρησίμων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 148:3)

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

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