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χειρονομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρονομία

Structure: χειρονομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. gesticulation

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

  • καὶ οὕτω συνέβη τοὺσ ἀντιπάλουσ ἐν χειρονομίαισ διαφθαρῆναι, πολλοὺσ δὲ καὶ δορυαλώτουσ συλληφθῆναι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:5)
  • ταῦτα τὴν ὄψιν ἐδίδαξε μὴ πυρρίχαισ χαίρειν μηδὲ χειρονομίαισ μηδ’ ὀρχήμασι γλαφυροῖσ μηδ’ ἀγάλμασι καὶ γραφαῖσ, ἀλλὰ φόνον καὶ θάνατον ἀνθρώπων καὶ τραύματα καὶ μάχασ θέαμα ποιεῖσθαι πολυτελέστατον. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 2 5:2)
  • καλεῖται δ’ ἡ πυρρίχη καὶ χειρονομία, ἡ δ’ ὑπορχηματική ἐστιν ἐν ᾗ ᾄδων ὁ χορὸσ ὀρχεῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 30 1:2)

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

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