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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

  • μία μὲν αὕτη συζυγία τριῶν γραμμάτων ἀφώνων ὁμοίῳ σχήματι λεγομένων, ψιλότητι δὲ καὶ δασύτητι διαφερόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1465)
  • διαλλάττει δὲ ταῦτα δασύτητι καὶ ψιλότητι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1467)
  • δὲ τὸ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐλάττονα γίγνεσθαι τῆσ νυκτόσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ ἡ τῆσ γῆσ ἀπογύμνωσισ ἅμα τῇ τῶν φυτῶν ψιλότητι τηνικαῦτα φυλλορροούντων. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 39 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. baldness

  2. smoothness

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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