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χαλεπότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλεπότης χαλεπότητος

Structure: χαλεποτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xalepo/s

Sense

  1. difficulty, ruggedness
  2. difficulty, harshness, rigour, severity
  3. ill-temper, vice

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

  • τὰσ μὲν οὖν τοιαύτασ χαλεπότητασ ὕστερον ἐγγενέσθαι τοῖσ Σπαρτιάταισ νομίζω, μάλιστά μετὰ τὸν μέγαν σεισμόν, ᾧ συνεπιθέσθαι τοὺσ εἵλωτασ μετὰ Μεσσηνίων ἱστοροῦσι, καὶ πλεῖστα κακὰ τὴν χώραν ἐργάσασθαι καὶ μέγιστον τῇ πόλει περιστῆσαι κίνδυνον. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 28 6:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ ἐνούσασ δυσκολίασ καὶ τὰσ χαλεπότητασ ὑφεωρῶντο καὶ τῶν μὲν ἄγνοιαν, τῶν δὲ φθόνον, τῶν δὲ ἀγνωμοσύνην, εἰ μή τισ σοφὸσ ὢν ἅμα δύναιτο τὴν τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ ἔχειν ἰσχὺν καὶ δύναμιν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. difficulty

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

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