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υἱοθεσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: υἱοθεσία

Structure: υἱοθεσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ti/qhmi B. 1

Sense

  1. adoption as a son

Declension

First 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

  • εἰώθει τε νεανίσκων τινῶν υἱοθεσίασ ποιεῖσθαι εἰσ τὸ ἀποχρῆσθαι αὐτοῖσ ἔσ τε τὰσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ ὥστε φυλάττεσθαι ὑπ’ εὐνοίασ αὐτῶν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. z'. BIWN 8:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα δουλείασ πάλιν εἰσ φόβον, ἀλλὰ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίασ, ἐν ᾧ κράζομεν Ἀββά ὁ πατήρ· (PROS RWMAIOUS, chapter 1 223:1)

Synonyms

  1. adoption as a son

Related

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

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