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χῶσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χῶσις χώσεως

Structure: χωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xo/w

Sense

  1. a heaping up (e.g. of earth); a raising of a mound or bank (e.g. against a city)
  2. a filling up, blocking by earth thrown in
  3. embankment

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χῶσις χώσει χώσεις
Genitive χώσεως χώσοιν χώσεων
Dative χώσει χώσοιν χώσεσιν*
Accusative χῶσιν χώσει χώσεις
Vocative χῶσι χώσει χώσεις

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 παρασκευασάμενοσ τάφρου τε χώσει καὶ χάρακοσ ἐπιβάσει ἃ πρόσφορα εἶναι ἔμελλεν, ἐπειδὴ πάντα ἐγένετο τὰ πρὸσ τὸν ἀγῶνα εὐτρεπῆ, μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον ὕπνον ἀναστήσασ τὸ κράτιστον τοῦ στρατοῦ μέροσ ἄξειν ἐπὶ τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἔμελλεν ἔρυμα, τοῖσ τ’ ἐν Φιδήνῃ κατεστρατοπεδευκόσι παρήγγειλεν, ἐπειδὰν ἐξεληλυθότασ αἴσθωνται τοὺσ σφετέρουσ ἐξιέναι καὶ αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ κούφῃ ἐσταλμένουσ ὁπλίσει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 41 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a heaping up

  2. embankment

Similar forms

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