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ὡραιότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὡραιότης ὡραιότητος

Structure: ὡραιοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from w(rai=os

Sense

  1. ripeness of fruits
  2. the bloom of youth

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

  • τὰ γὰρ καλά τε κἀγαθά, ἐγὼ ἔφην, οὐ διὰ τὰσ ὡραιότητασ, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὰσ ἀρετὰσ εἰσ τὸν βίον τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ἐπαύξεται. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 44:1)

Synonyms

  1. ripeness of fruits

  2. the bloom of youth

Related

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

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