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θέσις

θέσις

Ancient Greek

Noun

θέσῐς (thésis) f (genitive θέσεως); third declension

  1. a setting, placement, arrangement
  2. deposit
  3. adoption (of a child)
  4. adoption (in the more general sense of accepting as one's own)
  5. (philosophy) position, conclusion, thesis
  6. (dancing) putting down the foot
  7. (metre) the last half of the foot
  8. (rhetoric) affirmation
  9. (grammar) stop

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