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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)
  • ἢν δέ τισ οὕτωσ ἀνεζωπυρημένῳ αὐτῷ δῷ τὸν χαλινόν, ἐνταῦθ’ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ τῷ διὰ τὴν χαλαρότητα τοῦ στομίου λελύσθαι νομίζειν, κυδρῷ μὲν τῷ σχήματι, ὑγροῖν δὲ τοῖν σκελοῖν γαυριώμενοσ φέρεται, παντάπασιν ἐκμιμούμενοσ τὸν πρὸσ ἵππουσ καλλωπισμόν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 18:1)

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

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