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ὑποκορισμός?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: hypokorismos

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

  • ἔθυον γὰρ Ἑκαλήσια οἱ πέριξ δῆμοι συνιόντες Ἑκάλῳ Διΐ, καὶ τὴν Ἑκάλην ἐτίμων, Ἑκαλίνην ὑποκοριζόμενοι διὰ τὸ κἀκείνην νέον ὄντα κομιδῇ τὸν Θησέα ξενίζουσαν ἀσπάσασθαι πρεσβυτικῶς καὶ φιλοφρονεῖσθαι τοιούτοις ὑποκορισμοῖς. (Plutarch, chapter 14 2:2)
  • 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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