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ὑποκορισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποκορισμός ὑποκορισμοῦ

Structure: ὑποκορισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the use of diminutives

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

  • ἔστιν δὲ ὁ ὑποκορισμὸσ ὃ ἔλαττον ποιεῖ καὶ τὸκακὸν καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν, ὥσπερ καὶ Ἀριστοφάνησ σκώπτει ἐν τοῖσ Βαβυλωνίοισ, ἀντὶ μὲν χρυσίου χρυσιδάριον, ἀντὶ δ’ ἱματίου ἱματιδάριον, ἀντὶ δὲ λοιδορίασ λοιδορημάτιον καὶ ἀντὶ νοσήματοσ νοσημάτιον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. the use of diminutives

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

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