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τύφλωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύφλωσις τύφλωσεως

Structure: τυφλωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from tuflo/w

Sense

  1. a making blind, blinding

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τύφλωσις τυφλώσει τυφλώσεις
Genitive τυφλώσεως τυφλώσοιν τυφλώσεων
Dative τυφλώσει τυφλώσοιν τυφλώσεσιν*
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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