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ὑλοτομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑλοτομία

Structure: ὑλοτομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from u(loto/mos

Sense

  1. the cutting or felling of wood

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

  • τρίτον δὲ εἶδοσ χρηματιστικῆσ μεταξὺ ταύτησ καὶ τῆσ πρώτησ ἔχει γὰρ καὶ τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν τι μέροσ καὶ τῆσ μεταβλητικῆσ, ὅσα ἀπὸ γῆσ καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ γῆσ γιγνομένων, ἀκάρπων μὲν χρησίμων δέ, οἱο͂ν ὑλοτομία τε καὶ πᾶσα μεταλλευτική. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 149:1)

Synonyms

  1. the cutting or felling of wood

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

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