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χειμασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειμασία

Structure: χειμασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a passing the winter, wintering

Declension

First 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

  • Ἀντίγονοσ δὲ χειμάζων ἐν τῇ Μηδίᾳ καὶ πυθόμενοσ Πίθωνα πολλοὺσ τῶν ἐν τῇ χειμασίᾳ στρατιωτῶν ἐπαγγελίαισ καὶ δωρεαῖσ ἰδίουσ κατασκευάζειν καὶ διανοεῖσθαι νεωτερίζειν, τὴν μὲν ἰδίαν προαίρεσιν ἐπεκρύψατο, προσποιηθεὶσ δὲ ἀπιστεῖν τοῖσ διαβάλλουσι τούτοισ μὲν πολλῶν ἀκουόντων ἐπετίμησεν ὡσ διιστάνουσι τὴν φιλίαν, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ἐκτὸσ διέδωκε λόγον ὅτι μέλλει καταλιπεῖν τῶν ἄνω σατραπειῶν στρατηγὸν Πίθωνα καὶ δύναμιν ἱκανὴν τὴν παρέξουσαν τὴν ἀσφάλειαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 46 1:1)
  • ἐν δέ τινι χειμασίᾳ Σκιπίων καὶ Φαμέασ ἀντιπαρώδευον ἀλλήλοισ, μέσην ἔχοντεσ ἄβατον χαράδραν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐσ ἀλλήλουσ δυνάμενοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a passing the winter

Related

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

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