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χύσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χύσις χύσεως

Structure: χυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. a flood, stream
  2. a heap, a quantity
  3. the lapse

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

  • τοῖσ πλείστοισ γὰρ ὠνομακέναι δοκεῖ τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον παρὰ τὴν χύσιν. (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 1 4:1)
  • ἢ σῖγ’ ἀτίμωσ, ὥσπερ οὖν ἀπώλετο πατήρ, τάδ’ ἐκχέασα, γάποτον χύσιν, στείχω καθάρμαθ’ ὥσ τισ ἐκπέμψασ πάλιν δικοῦσα τεῦχοσ ἀστρόφοισιν ὄμμασιν; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:1)
  • ἴτ’ ὦ νύμφαι, ἱερὸν γένοσ Ὠκεανοῖο, δείξατ’ ἐελδομένοισιν ἐνωπαδὶσ ἄμμι φανεῖσαι ἤ τινα πετραίην χύσιν ὕδατοσ, ἤ τινα γαίησ ἱερὸν ἐκβλύοντα, θεαί, ῥόον, ᾧ ἀπὸ δίψαν αἰθομένην ἄμοτον λωφήσομεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 22:27)
  • πάντα μόθοσ χρονίη τε χύσισ καὶ Μοῖρα κραταιὴ ἡρ́πασεν, ἀλλοίην ἀμφιβαλοῦσα τύχην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 153 1:1)
  • ἀντὶ δ’ ἐμεῦ κομάρου τισ ὁδοιπόροσ ἢ τερεβίνθου δρεπτέσθω χθαμαλὴν ἐσ χύσιν οὐ γὰρ ἑκάσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2822)
  • Δέλτα θεῶν ἀγορή, ὁρ́κων χύσισ, ἄρεοσ ἀρχή. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3853)
  • τῇ μὲν γὰρ λείπει σαρκῶν χύσισ, ἡ δὲ περισσὴν κέκτηται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 372)
  • εἰσ τοὺσ αὐτούσ τύμβοσ ἐήν νῦν δ’ εἰμὶ λίθων χύσισ, οὐκέτι τύμβοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 2211)
  • μέγιστον δ’ αὐτοῦ τῆσ ὑγρότητοσ τεκμήριον ἡ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐξ ὀλιγίστου διανομὴ καὶ χύσισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. a flood

  2. a heap

Related

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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