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χαύνωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαύνωσις χαύνωσεως

Structure: χαυνωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xauno/w

Sense

  1. a making slack or loose, the making a thing light, weakening its force and weight

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χαύνωσις χαυνώσει χαυνώσεις
Genitive χαυνώσεως χαυνώσοιν χαυνώσεων
Dative χαυνώσει χαυνώσοιν χαυνώσεσιν*
Accusative χαύνωσιν χαυνώσει χαυνώσεις
Vocative χαύνωσι χαυνώσει χαυνώσεις

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

  • πῶσ ἂν μάθοι ποθ’ οὗτοσ ἀπόφυξιν δίκησ ἢ κλῆσιν ἢ χαύνωσιν ἀναπειστηρίαν; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:19)

Similar forms

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

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