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χωλεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χωλεία

Structure: χωλει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xwleu/w

Sense

  1. lameness

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

  • ἢν γάρ τισ χωλὸσ ὢν αὐτῷ ἐκείνῳ τῷ χωλῷ ποδὶ προσπταίσασ λίθῳ τραῦμα, ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ λάβῃ, ὁ τοιοῦτοσ εἶχε μὲν δήπου σύμβαμα τὴν χωλείαν, τὸ τραῦμα δὲ παρασύμβαμα προσέλαβεν. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 20:14)

Synonyms

  1. lameness

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

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