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χειρουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρουργία

Structure: χειρουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xeirourge/w

Sense

  1. a working by hand, practice of a handicraft or art, skill herein
  2. a handicraft, the practice of chirurgery, surgery.

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

  • ἐκλεξάμενοι γὰρ τόπον παρὰ τὸν εἴσπλουν τὸν εἰσ τὴν Μοίριδοσ λίμνην ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ κατεσκεύαζον τὸν τάφον ἐκ τῶν καλλίστων λίθων, καὶ τῷ μὲν σχήματι τετράγωνον ὑπεστήσαντο, τῷ δὲ μεγέθει σταδιαίαν ἑκάστην πλευράν, ταῖσ δὲ γλυφαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ χειρουργίαισ ὑπερβολὴν οὐκ ἀπέλιπον τοῖσ ἐπιγινομένοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 66 3:2)

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

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