αιρεσις | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

A taking or choosing, especially a deliberate selection. By extension, a chosen course of action or school/sect (often philosophical), and in later usage a “heresy,” i.e., a sectarian doctrine.

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Grammatical Analysis

"αιρεσις"

Case: nominative

Number: singular

Gender: feminine

Declension: 3rd declension (sigmatic/σις-type abstract noun)

Related Forms of αἵρεσις

2 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

αιρεσιν accusative, singular, feminine αἵρεσιν accusative, singular, feminine

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