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ψυχρότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψυχρότης ψυχρότητος

Structure: ψυχροτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. coldness, cold
  2. coldness of heart, sluggishness

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

  • ἐξυγραίνεσθαι δὲ πυκνότητι καὶ ψυχρότητι τὴν νοτερὰν ἀναθυμίασιν, ὅταν ἐν βάθει καταθλιβεῖσα ῥευστικὴ γένηται. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 14 2:3)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀήρ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, συνελαύνων τὰ σώματα τῇ ψυχρότητι καταθραύει καὶ ῥήγνυσιν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 11 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅσα τῇ ψυχρότητι περιλαμβάνει ψαύων καὶ πλησιάζων, ταῦθ’ ἵστησιν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 12 3:4)
  • κενὸν δ’ οὐδὲν ἀλλὰ πάντα πλήρη, βιαζομένου τῇ ψυχρότητι τοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 6:2)
  • ἀντίκειται γὰρ τῇ ψυχρότητι πρὸσ τὴν θερμότητα τοῦ πυρόσ, ὥσπερ τῇ ὑγρότητι πρὸσ τὴν ξηρότητα καὶ τῇ βαρύτητι πρὸσ τὴν κουφότητα. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. coldness

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

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