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ψῑλότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψῑλότης ψῑλότητος

Structure: ψῑλοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from yi_lo/s

Sense

  1. bareness
  2. (Can we find and add a quotation of Plutarch to this entry?)
  3. baldness
  4. (Can we find and add a quotation of Artemidorus to this entry?)
  5. (of a woman’s body) smoothness
  6. (Can we find and add a quotation of Aristotle to this entry?)

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

  • ὥσπερ αὖ πάλιν ὁ κάραβοσ ἐκείνων μὲν ἐν λαβαῖσ γενομένων περιγίγνεται ῥᾳδίωσ ἡ γὰρ ψιλότησ οὐ βοηθεῖ πρὸσ τὴν τραχύτητα τοῦ δὲ πολύποδοσ εἴσω τὰσ πλεκτάνασ διωθοῦντοσ ἀπόλλυται. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 27 14:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ χειμὼν κωλύει καὶ τῆσ γῆσ ἡ ψιλότησ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλέη οὐδὲ σκέπη. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xix.7)

Synonyms

  1. baldness

  2. smoothness

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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