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χαλαρότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλαρότης χαλαρότητος

Structure: χαλαροτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xalaro/s

Sense

  1. slackness, looseness

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

  • ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τραχὺσ ἐμβληθῇ, τῇ χαλαρότητι λείῳ δεῖ αὐτὸν ἀφομοιοῦν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 10:2)
  • καὶ ὅταν δ’ αἴσθηται ἡδόμενον τὸν ἵππον τῇ τε ὑψαυχενίᾳ καὶ τῇ χαλαρότητι, ἐν τούτῳ οὐδὲν δεῖ χαλεπὸν προσφέρειν ὡσ πονεῖν ἀναγκάζοντα, ἀλλὰ θωπεύειν ὡσ ἱππάσασθαι βουλόμενον· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 15:1)

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

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