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ὑποχώρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποχώρησις ὑποχώρησεως

Structure: ὑποχωρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a going back, retirement, retreat
  2. a retiring-place, retreat

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅθεν ἡ μὲν στέρησισ ἔκλειψισ γίγνεται καὶ ὑποχώρησισ τῆσ ἀντικειμένησ δυνάμεωσ, ψύχεται δὲ πολλά, πολλῆσ αὐτοῖσ θερμότητοσ ἐνυπαρχούσησ ἔνια δὲ καὶ μᾶλλον ἡ ψυχρότησ, ἂν λάβῃ θερμότερα, πήγνυσι καὶ συνάγει, καθάπερ τὸν βαπτόμενον σίδηρον οἱ δὲ Στωικοὶ καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα λέγουσιν ἐν τοῖσ σώμασι τῶν βρεφῶν τῇ περιψύξει στομοῦσθαι καὶ μεταβάλλον ἐκ φύσεωσ γίγνεσθαι ψυχήν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 2 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a going back

  2. a retiring-place

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

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