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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

  • γεγόνει δὲ οὗτοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐκδρομαῖσ ἐπιφανὴσ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ ἐξιέναι καὶ κωλύειν τὴν χῶσιν παρακαλῶν καὶ κατὰ τὰσ μάχασ πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ τοὺσ Ῥωμαίουσ διατιθείσ, τοῖσ δὲ σὺν αὐτῷ τολμῶσιν ἐπεκτρέχειν ῥᾳδίαν μὲν τὴν προσβολὴν τιθέμενοσ, ἀκίνδυνον δὲ παρέχων τὴν ἀναχώρησιν τῷ τελευταῖοσ ἀπιέναι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 226:1)

Synonyms

  1. a heaping up

  2. embankment

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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