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τύφλωσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: typhlōsis

Principal Part: τύφλωσις τύφλωσεως

Structure: τυφλωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from τυφλόω

Sense

  1. a making blind, blinding

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τύφλωσις τυφλώσει τυφλώσεις
Genitive τυφλώσεως τυφλώσοιν τυφλώσεων
Dative τυφλώσει τυφλώσοιν τυφλώσεσι(ν)
Accusative τύφλωσιν τυφλώσει τυφλώσεις
Vocative τύφλωσι τυφλώσει τυφλώσεις

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

  • εἶτ ἐκλιπόντος εὐθύς, ὁ Λεωσθένης ἔλεγε τὴν δύναμιν ἐμπλανωμένην ἑαυτῇ καὶ περιπίπτουσαν ἐοικέναι τῷ Κύκλωπι, μετὰ τὴν τύφλωσιν ἐκτείνοντι πανταχοῖ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπ οὐδένα σκοπὸν φερομένας: (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 4 2:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἔνδοξος ἐν ἐκείνῳ καὶ ἀήττητος καὶ μεγαλόφρων καὶ ἀνύβριστος καὶ φιλάνθρωπος εἶτ ἐκλιπόντος εὐθὺς ὁ Λεωσθένης ἔλεγε τὴν δύναμιν ἐμπλανωμένην ἑαυτῇ καὶ περιπίπτουσαν ἐοικέναι τῷ Κύκλωπι μετὰ τὴν τύφλωσιν ἐκτείνοντι πανταχοῖ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπ οὐδένα σκοπὸν φερομένας: (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 44)
  • ὁ δὲ τοῦ Κυθηρίου Φιλοξένου Κύκλωψ ἐρῶν τῆς Γαλατείας καὶ ἐπαινῶν αὐτῆς τὸ κάλλος, προμαντευόμενος τὴν τύφλωσιν πάντα μᾶλλον αὐτῆς ἐπαινεῖ ἢ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν μνημονεύει, λέγων ὧδε: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 17 3:2)
  • Τοῖσι μελαγχολικοῖσι νουσήμασιν ἐς τάδε ἐπικίνδυνοι αἱ ἀποσκήψιες‧ ἢ ἀπόπληξιν τοῦ σώματος, ἢ σπασμὸν, ἢ μανίην, ἢ τύφλωσιν σημαίνουσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 60.56)

Synonyms

  1. a making blind

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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